Editor’s Note: One of our most popular stories features Leroy Homer, the co-pilot on Flight 93 from Newark, New Jersey to San Francisco on September 11,...
Six-year-old Miriam didn’t understand why her family suddenly had to leave her grandparents’ home in Monroe, Georgia until much later. It was the 1960s, about eight...
Family, friends, and supporters celebrated Alex Haley’s 98th birthday over the weekend at his childhood home in Henning, Tennessee. In 1976 Haley introduced America to the...
As a genealogist, K. I. Knight deals with hundreds of names, yet one name lingered in her mind. It was with her when she was driving,...
It was described as an area overrun with natural resources. Pine trees covered the north end while various plants and animals occupied the rest. Birds flocked...
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” Toni Morrison For almost half...
America suffered its most devastating World War II loss on its own soil at Port Chicago, California located in San Francisco’s East Bay area 75 years...
For the millions of African Americans who grew up reading Ebony and JET magazines, news that Johnson Publishing filed for bankruptcy in April signals the loss...
For me, the song “This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land” just about sums up the whole conversation about celebrating the Fourth of...
In what many viewed as a nod to the significant role African Americans have played in the nation’s history, the House of Representatives held its first...