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Politicians bash businesses. “Stop the greed!” shouts Sen. Bernie Sanders. Many Republicans are equally ignorant. When some ...

Former governor of Arkansas, Orville Faubus, died with history noting that this one white man stood up to the President of ...

Near the corner of 23rd Street and Cedar Avenue in East Lubbock, the Chatman Hospital has stood tall for 80 years.

Some rich people got absurdly rich. So what? The poor got richer, too. Quietly, capitalism, harnessing individuals’ greed, ...

Carol Gordon is an avid collector of Black American memorabilia and has assembled a traveling history museum that she takes ...

The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), representing the Black Press of America, has announced the planning and ...

Politicians bash businesses. "Stop the greed!" shouts Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.). Many Republicans are equally ignorant.

Two students created a poster entitled, “Tragedy and Healing: The Impact of Two Black Surgeons in the Jim Crow South.”  MD Thomas Brewer and MD Delmar Edward’s were the one ...

Members of the General Assembly are considering efforts to change how some local governments work and how people are elected ...

The RaMell Ross directorial film ‘Nickel Boys’ is a profound dive into the lives of two young men and their friendship forged in the most troubling fires. Set in the ’60s, during the Jim Crow era, the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — If governor Mike DeWine’s nomination of former OSU football coach, Jim Tressel, for lieutenant governor is ...