Black women hold fewer leadership roles than their white counterparts, and those who attain prominence often receive less ...

Christina Greer is an associate professor at Fordham University and the author of “How to Build a Democracy: From Fannie Lou ...

Remember Rosa Parks? She took a stand to bring attention to racism and discrimination against black Americans by sitting at ...

There is a movement afoot to honor the segment of society Malcolm X famously said was the most disrespected in the nation — Black women. And this movement isn’t waiting on anyone’s permission. Though ...

There is so much history between the walls of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has hosted funerals for ...

There has been a systemic erasure of Black history.” Professor Christina Greer discusses the Trump administration’s crackdown on free speech and efforts to whitewash American history. The erasure of ...

Meet 21 civil rights activists—past and present—whose bold leadership reshaped history and continues to inspire justice ...

Many Black Americans are not surprised by the way Trump is running roughshod over the rule of law, because they have seen it ...

As Women’s History Month comes to an end, I’ve been reflecting on ways to honor Black women. We often see and admire them in ways that are left unspoken or that aren’t amplified nearly ...

Another order by the president also directed the Interior Department to evict homeless people from federal land in the nation’s capital. President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders ...

It all started with a broken promise. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson was reelected to a second term in the White House after campaigning to continue his noninterventionist policies when it came ...

This is so important because, like many black women in history, ‘Ashwood Garvey was often sidelined in the very movements she helped to build, particularly within male-dominated pan-African circles.’ ...