Tag: Black History

(AURN News) — Billy G. Mills, a pioneering civil rights attorney, Los Angeles councilman and judge, has died at 96, according to…

(AURN News) — Tomorrow marks 250 years since July 4, 1776, when the Declaration of Independence announced the birth of the United…

(AURN News) — On July 2, 1777, Vermont made history by becoming the first U.S. territory to ban slavery. While the American…

On this day in 1969, 14-year-old Vivian Strong was killed by an Omaha police officer. Vivian, a Black girl, was at a…

(AURN News) — From Phyllis Wheatley to today’s journalists, filmmakers, broadcasters and podcasters, a new book argues that Black media makers have…

(AURN News) — An appeals court ruled that the Trump administration can remove and replace the slavery exhibit at the President’s House…

(AURN News) — The Obama Presidential Center opens to the public today on Chicago’s South Side. More than a decade in the…

(AURN News) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has pardoned 43 people who were convicted under a state law that made it a…

WASHINGTON (AURN News) — A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore Black history exhibits and other historical content removed…

WASHINGTON (AURN News) — Vice President JD Vance faced pushback from the hosts of “The View” during a contentious discussion about the…

On this day in 1966, Stokely Carmichael transformed the language of the civil rights movement when he called for “Black Power” during…

(AURN News) — On June 14, 1877, Henry Ossian Flipper became the first African American to graduate from West Point. Born enslaved…