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WASHINGTON (AURN News) — The Smithsonian will enter its growing confrontation with the Trump administration under new leadership next year. Smithsonian Secretary…
(AURN News) — African leaders, investors and business executives gathered at MGM National Harbor on Thursday with a message: Africa does not…
(AURN News) — Tomorrow, Aug. 1, marks the date the Slavery Abolition Act took effect across most of the British Empire in…
(AURN News) — On June 10, 1940, Marcus Garvey, the pioneering leader of the Black nationalist and Pan-African movements, died in London…
(AURN News) — According to the BBC, South African actress and former beauty queen Cynthia Shange has died at the age of…
(AURN News) — A growing dispute between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV is intensifying, with Vice President JD Vance weighing…
(AURN News) — On this day, March 5, 1770, Crispus Attucks, a sailor of African and Native American descent, became the first…
(AURN News) — The Congressional Black Caucus says the Trump administration is targeting Black immigrants through sweeping visa restrictions and enforcement policies.…
(AURN News) — On Feb. 19, 1919, the first Pan-African Congress, organized by W.E.B. Du Bois, convened in Paris at the close…
(AURN News) — Rev. Jesse Jackson died at age 84 on Feb. 17, 2026, in Chicago after a lengthy illness, leaving a…
(AURN News) — The Trump administration removed and altered parts of a Philadelphia exhibit honoring enslaved Africans at the historic President’s House…
(AURN News) — On Oct. 7, 1934, playwright, poet and activist Amiri Baraka was born in Newark, New Jersey. Born Everett LeRoi…