Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg held court with an enthusiastic crowd of 15,000 who listened intently to the beloved jurist discuss historical opinions, her career...
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...
With a renewed conversation about reparations, Labor Day offers Black Americans an opportunity to review the role work has played in the collective identity of the...
When Lisa Shelton first saw them she wanted to cry. She thought about the miniseries and what it was like for them to be trapped behind...
For Kathleen Bertrand it was such a rare sight that she would run through the house screaming. A black person had just appeared on the popular...
Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law is back in the headlines again. As in the Trayvon Martin case six years ago, this case also involves an unarmed...
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...
With little more than a year remaining until the 2020 Presidential election, a new organization is focused on an often-overlooked segment of the voting population: Black...
It began with a group of them, student and faculty researchers working together to highlight a problem in local and state laws. In the end, 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,...