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Two centuries later, a number of women in Oakland are recreating the Underground Railroad quilt. It’s one of the annual ...
The Nubian Heritage Quilters Guild (NHQG) celebrates their 30th anniversary with quilt exhibit “30 Years of Quilting Our ...
It's not having decent fresh fruits and vegetables in the local grocery." The death reflected a harsh reality in the United States: Asthma hits African-Americans particularly hard, and the health care ...
Between the 17th and 19th centuries, enslaved Africans and African Americans in British North America and the United States staged hundreds of revolts. Fed by a longing for freedom and ...
Another pioneering African-American nurse was Jessie Sleet Scales, who in 1900 became America’s first Black public health nurse. Trained in Chicago, Scales moved to New York and, after trying ...
An American blogger is stranded in Pakistan amid ... which is the tense region," he said. "It's pretty crazy to be here right now. I've been receiving thousands of text messages and calls from ...
“I was trying to think of three things you can’t argue with, and I came up with ‘God is great; beer is good; people are crazy.‘” He then took his burgeoning song to Braddock, who rounded ...
Dr. Carla D. Hayden was the first African American and the first woman to serve as the head of the Library of Congress. Her firing drew a furious response from Democrats. By Tim Balk The Trump ...
Read full article: Vehicle crash on I-81N in Roanoke County causing 4-mile backup Harrison Museum of African American Culture logo (Courtesy of HMOAAC) (HMOAAC2025) ROANOKE, Va. – The Harrison ...
Amarillo Little Theatre's "Dreamgirls" runs May 1-18, featuring its largest predominantly African-American cast. Special events include a two-for-one opening night deal, student and group ...
Following the Trump administration’s push back on African American history and institutions, the “#HandsOffOurHistory” demonstration scoured the three blocks from the John A. Wilson building to the ...
Jason Riley makes his living by his pen — and wastes no ink or time mincing words. “There’s a lot of intellectual cowardice going on in the country right now, and it’s a product, I think ...