Despite its official government recognition in 1975, scholars say Black History Month started decades earlier with the work ...

Exactly 36 years ago on Jan. 13, 1990, Douglas Wilder — the first elected African American governor in the United States — ...

President Donald Trump's photo portrait display at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has had references to his two ...

David Jolly (D) called on others to condemn what he calls "racist" comments made about Byron Donalds (R) by their fellow ...

U.S. civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman in ...

Jazz is there and gone,” famed Miles Davis pianist and composer Keith Jarrett once said. “It happens. You have to be present ...

In 1924, Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, also known as the Snyder Act, which turned all noncitizen Indians born ...

The Session is here Gov. Kay Ivey is scheduled to give her final State of the State address at 6 tonight in the old House ...