What words have been grafted to soothe a mother’s pain when her black child is murdered. Who created a hug strong enough to convince a young...
One of the many remembering Reverend Clemente Pinckney is Reverend Mark Tyler, Pastor of Mother Bethel AME in Philadelphia. Rev. Tyler recalls talking with the late...
President Barack Obama, the nation’s first African American president, can view The Emancipation Proclamation every day. The document ending the brutal practice of slavery holds a...
Forty-nine. That’s the latest number of people killed by a gunman who rampaged through an Orlando gay nightclub in the early morning hours Sunday. This latest...
Photography: Glen Abbott Muhammad Ali’s boyhood home in Louisville, Kentucky opened for public tours two months ago. It’s a pastel pink house where the boxing great...
In Chicago today and around the nation, voices will unite against gun violence. It is National Gun Violence Awareness Day recognized by wearing orange. The annual...
With air dressed in thick traditions, chocolatey love, and new cucumber water…for the first time in my life, I understood the inherent importance of Memorial Day....
Most everyone is familiar with the saying, “Seeing is believing.” Literacy consultant, Patrick Oliver, hopes your child will find inspiration in the cliche and create a...
A group of former slaves compelled to honor Union soldiers found buried in a mass grave is credited with starting the first Memorial Day. Historian Brian...
A judge decided today that comedian Bill Cosby will stand trial on sexual assault charges. The charges involve Andrea Constand, a former employee at Temple University,...