The preacher and civil rights activist tells us that we can all live and work together to make society a better place.

Today’s clergy need to answer the Rev. Martin Luther King’s call six decades ago to step up, organize and take action.

The Boys and Girls Club of Moultrie celebrated Black History Month by putting on an event at its different sites.

Educators are embracing rather than restricting discussions of race in schools. Leaders have said they’ll do so whether the ...

A $16 million redevelopment project that will transform the Upton Mansion into the new home of The Afro-American newspaper ...

I am a white, cis, heterosexual, well-educated woman of privilege. That matters for this piece because my social location is the context, while my experiences have formed who I am.

With more local history made this week — first Black Urbana mayor elected (DeShawn Williams), first Black Champaign Central ...

Woodson also founded Associated Publishers, which, in addition to publishing the Journal of Negro History, prepared kits for ...

Do you know who Anthony Benezet is? Or was?  Think about an early incarnation of Martin Luther King, Jr. … in whiteface.  Or Frederick Douglass’s brother from another mother.  Better […] ...

The historic Black Church was not established to be a passive institution, nor was it ever meant to cower before power. It ...

Claudette Colvin in 1954 PHOTO COURTESY OF DGT “I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy ...

(WHNT) — The history of Black people in Alabama is long, but for decades the teaching of that history was distorted and far from complete. Consider this from the 1970 edition of the 4th-grade history ...