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ATLANTA, GA, UNITED STATES, February 2, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The U.S. Civil Rights Trail is expanding in 2026, ...

Long before MLB integration, Tampa’s Cyrus Greene Park was home to Negro League teams and players who helped pave the way for future generations.

In 1942, James G. Thompson, of Wichita, Kansas, addressed a letter to the editor of The Pittsburgh Courier with a simple question.

The classic spiritual conjures themes of freedom and resilience, which flow through a conversation between pianist Lara Downes and the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative.

Rock Hill resident Wali Cathcart’s family story stretches across generations of Black struggle in America, from slavery to integration. For Cathcart, many of those challenges and triumphs played out ...

Charlie’s Playhouse opened around 1958 under the ownership of East Austin businessman Ernest “Charlie” Gildon. Located at 1206 East 11th Street in the historically Black cultural district, the ...

As jurors acquit Palestine Action and a court overturns their proscription, is the government fighting a losing battle?

Many a socialite visited Ann Lowe’s Gowns, a salon on Manhattan’s Lexington Avenue, in the 1950s. The daughter and granddaughter of African American seamstresses, Lowe designed the wedding dress worn ...

Judo was the answer. In 1950, LeMay ordered Lt. Gen. Thomas Power to stand up an experimental physical conditioning unit at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. The program combined preflight ...

While Ruben J. Dailey is recognized as Asheville’s first Black City Council member, an earlier and largely forgotten pioneer served as a city leader nearly a century before.

That reality came to mind recently with the unwelcome announcement that the Richmond Free Press, the direct descendant of the Afro, ceased publication with its first and only digital edition on ...