Tag: Black History

(AURN News) — The 100th year of Black History Month continues to highlight the challenges facing the Black community in the Trump…

(AURN News) — One hundred years ago this week, Negro History Week began — an observance that would later grow into what…

(AURN News) — President Donald Trump issued a proclamation this week marking Black History Month. The action comes as his administration continues…

(AURN NEWS) — On this day, February 4, 1913, civil rights icon Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. Decades later, on…

WASHINGTON (AURN News) — As the Trump administration continues removing references to Black history across the federal government, a recent Pew Research…

(AURN News) — According to the Associated Press, the U.S. Postal Service will honor Muhammad Ali with a commemorative Forever Stamp, marking…

(AURN News) — According to The Associated Press, Claudette Colvin — whose refusal to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery…

On this day in Black history, Dec. 11, 1926, blues legend Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton was born—one of the most electrifying…

(AURN News) — On this day in 1925, Sammy Davis Jr. was born — a multitalented entertainer who became one of the…

(AURN News) — On Dec. 4, 1906, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, becoming…

(AURN News) — On this day in 1841, 35 survivors of the Amistad mutiny departed New York City to return home to…

(AURN News) — Viola Ford Fletcher — the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre — has died at 111,…