In 1948, she became the first Black woman in the regular Army Nurse Corps. She later served in Vietnam with the Air Force.

Martin Luther King Jr is remembered for his tireless work during the Civil Rights Movement and his dream that one day ...

Monday commemorates the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. This year, the holiday coincides with Trump’s ...

A sprawling cemetery on Chattanooga's Missionary Ridge where Ed Johnson was laid to rest after he was lynched on the Walnut Street Bridge in 1906 has been nominated to the National Register of ...

Nigeria has been admitted as a “partner country” of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, according to Brazil, the group’s ...

Altadena, California, was among Los Angeles County's first Black middle-class enclaves. Some fear recent wildfires may have ...

Marchers carry signs during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Aug. 28, 1963. During the march, the Rev. Dr. Martin ...

RaMell Ross’s magisterial adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, pointedly sets up its central ...

Free Black history and art repository Mama’s Attic in Omaha is a homespun homage to founder LaVon Stennis Williams’ late ...