It immediately felt inviting.The works on display also beckoned me inside as I began to get a sense of what today’s artistic ...

On November 10, 1898, white supremacists led the only successful U.S. coup, overthrowing Wilmington’s Black-led government in the ‘Wilmington Massacre.’ Its full toll and legacy remain unknown.

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

Laverne Cox gives powerful speech against Trump agenda at SCAD TVfest: 'They are committed to eradicating trans people from ...

The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of cases against Capitol riot defendants places those who seek ...

Black labor leaders fought for workers of color, trailblazing work that continues as the Trump administration strips away key protections.

Chicago’s path to being a sanctuary city began more than 40 years ago. Here’s a look back at the leaders and laws that have shaped Chicago’s involvement with the sanctuary movement. July 18, 1982: ...

More than 75 years of efforts to broker a two-state solution have failed—and the odds of success have only grown longer.

Trump appears bent on ridding schools of dangerous practices like critical thinking and an unsanitized study of history.

The Village Bohemian counterculture movement in the late 19th century and early 20th, with its artistic creativity and ...

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 ...