There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...

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Gen. William T. Sherman‘s infamous “March to the Sea” is covered almost antiseptically in American history texts. Yet, ...

A public art installation called “Portals” features 20 large-scale historic photographs in windows throughout Shockoe Bottom.

Transit Authority of River City is participating in Black History Month this February by recognizing a famous civil rights ...

Local Black advocacy groups responded Monday to President Donald Trump's recent proclamation regarding Black History Month as ...

What’s your definition of work? Ask the kids and they might say homework or chores, maybe a part-time job for teens. Today’s ...

They performed the most arduous and dangerous work despite racism, lower pay than white workers, curtailed food rations, and threats of violence from white railroad bosses. But in the famous 1869 ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

"I can make a difference with my platform," says acting superstar Eva Longoria of her investment in Colombia's La Equidad ...

Hellmann’s big Super Bowl ad this year stars Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal reunited at New York City’s iconic Katz’s Deli to ...

When Lillian Ross profiled the celebrated novelist, the world saw ridicule and ruin. But letters between the reporter and her ...