This year’s Black History Month theme is “African Americans and Labor,” focusing on the ways work impacts “the collective experiences of Black people,” according to the Association for the Study of ...

Rosa Parks was an avid yoga practitioner. The way Parks took a stand for civil rights reflects many of the principles behind ...

Remembering The Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi”, by Joe Bateman and Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, (The University of Georgia Press: Athens), 280 pages, ...

When Tarence Bailey Sr. received a formal memo from the Maryland National Guard declining to support a celebration for Frederick Douglass on Saturday, it felt personal.

When J D Harris (1833–84) began studying medicine in 1863, there were few African American doctors whose paths he could follow. The first university-trained African American physician, James McCune ...

Mississippi is steeped in Black history and culture, from Civil Rights sites that spurred national change to the delta -the birthplace of the blues.

In 1926, a week was dedicated to honoring the contributions of African Americans to the nation. This initiative, initiated by ...

In what feels like the dwindling hours of this democracy, I’m painfully aware of the erosion of civil rights gains.

Let’s call this what it really is: resegregation … Any official, including the president, who chooses to blame everything ...

February is remembered by many for Valentine’s Day: an annual celebration of pink, white and red. One of my favorite memories ...

Educator and historian Carter G. Woodson was the founder of what is now the Association for the Study of African American ...

A formal memo from the Maryland National Guard's Joint Operations Center, dated Feb. 7, said the reserve component would be ...