Three Illinois State University alumni, Tidye Ann Picket, Cathy Boswell, and Dr. Nell Jackson, have paved the way for ...

Historically, Black political power has not come easily in the United States. The institution of slavery and systems of racial inequality – from Black Codes to Jim Crow – restricted the civil and ...

EDWARDSVILLE - First graders at Nelson Elementary School in Edwardsville completed their first report on a famous African American for Black History Month.Tamara ...

In 1969, Black educators and students at Kent State University proposed the month of February to be celebrated as Black History Month. The first ever celebration took place at Kent State University a ...

From the history of slave rebellions to modern media perceptions of Black people, students in Parkland High School’s new AP ...

The Detroit Institute of Arts has revamped its African American arts collection and brought it to the heart of the museum. “Reimagine African American Art,” which opened Saturday, was organized by the ...

For many African Americans on the journey of tracing their family tree, they can hit a dead end due to poorly kept records during the slavery period. A group of Stanford researchers has created a ...

BOWLING GREEN, KY.- According to the CDC, about 90,000 non-Hispanic Black or African American people in the United States have sickle cell disease. Outside the U.S., the condition is more common in ...

Ask a given person what they know about the history of the use of African-Americans as unwilling research subjects and they are likely to mention one infamous incident: Tuskegee. “Such a failure seems ...