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Joseph A. McNeil, one of four North Carolina A&T freshmen whose 1960 sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro helped ignite…
Burkina Faso’s transitional parliament has passed legislation criminalizing conduct deemed to promote LGBTQ practices, CNN reported. The law includes fines, prison terms…
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser issued an order Tuesday to extend the work of the Safe and Beautiful Emergency Operations Center, created…
On Sept. 2, 1766, abolitionist and inventor James Forten was born in Philadelphia. Forten, a free Black man, became a sailmaker and…
On Sept. 1, 1867, Robert Tanner Freeman became the first Black graduate of Harvard Dental School, making history as one of the…
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the Fed’s board, has filed a lawsuit against the Trump…
Activists behind a national Target boycott say foot traffic has dropped in nearly 2,000 stores since January, proof their pressure is working,…
On this day, Aug. 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered while visiting relatives in Mississippi. The Black teenager…
On Aug. 26, 1874, 16 Black men were dragged from the jail in Trenton, Tennessee, by a white mob of masked men.…
On Aug. 22, 1989, Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was shot and killed in West Oakland,…
Republicans in the Texas House pushed through a controversial new congressional map this week after an intense fight with Democrats, according to…
President Donald Trump confirmed Tuesday that the White House is reviewing the Smithsonian museums, criticizing their focus on slavery, according to ABC…