Prominent figures such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Emmett Till, Thomas Jefferson, and Sally Hemings were scheduled to
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia On the anniversary of the iconic March on Washington, civil rights leaders and a diverse coalition of allies
By AARON MORRISON and KAT STAFFORD NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s oldest civil rights organization said it will propose a sweeping plan meant to protect Black Americans
By Shaun Rabb Dallas County probate records that are more than 160 years old have been found, and they contain inventory lists detailing the property of people who died.
The Juneteenth flag is a symbol for the Juneteenth holiday in the United States. The first version was created in 1997 by activist Ben Haith and that early version was displayed in 1997. The
By MICHAEL HILL In 1828, years before she took the name Sojourner Truth, a Black woman who had escaped slavery with her infant daughter won a court fight
James McCune Smith was an American physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author who was born into slavery in 1813 in Manhattan and was set free on July 4, 1827,
By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — The estate of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has reached an international agreement with HarperCollins Publishers, which released his first
By Aaron Morrison TULSA, Okla. (AP) — On a recent Sunday, Ernestine Alpha Gibbs returned to Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church. Not her body. She had left this
