Dr. Lulu Merle Johnson made history in Iowa. Now a 7-foot statue will honor her legacy
Johnson became Iowa’s first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in 1941, but discriminatory hiring practices kept her from teaching
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Johnson became Iowa’s first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in 1941, but discriminatory hiring practices kept her from teaching
Oregon Black Pioneers Executive Director Zachary Stocks told KOIN 6 people don’t have to be “firsts” to be considered icons.
The New York Times offers the most concise summary of this legal battle in action . . . "A group of current and former students at a historically Black university sued Missouri...
Kansas City, Kansas is hosting its first Black Restaurant Week, featuring 11 Black-owned businesses and special deals ahead of 913 Day.
An important recap and a glimpse at local push back in the effort to cling to fading history . . . Read more at tonyskansascity.com
Thornton and Lucie Blackburn’s journey to freedom from Louisville to Canada was underrepresented in the United States, until now.
In 1921, the Black families of Hill Prairie, in Bastrop County, built a two-teacher schoolhouse. The Rosenwald Fund in Chicago sent $800—equivalent to $15,000 in today’s dollars. T...
Black leaders are making waves: Florida's Angie Nixon runs for U.S. Senate, Kentucky's Charles Booker faces Trump criticism, Atlanta's Dr. Anita Allen becomes a historic police chi...
More than six decades after Ruby Bridges made history by becoming the first Black child to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans, students across the country will...
*The Black Movie Hall of Fame will launch its first film festival in February 2027 with a month-long celebration of Black cinema. Presented by AARP, the festival will host screenin...
Black labor has powered America for generations, helping shape the labor movement even as unions and lawmakers often left Black
From modest cottages to family-owned businesses, Black residents helped create the economic and cultural foundation of Martha’s Vineyard.
The city of Kansas City, Kansas, will highlight 11 Black-owned businesses next week as part of its first-ever Black Restaurant Week.
Jersey City is taking steps to preserve overlooked Black history sites, including the home of its first Black schoolteacher and the city's last known surviving Underground Railroad...
Sybil Wilkes covers critical issues for Black America: eight Black candidates running for governor, a federal investigation into Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, tax planning strategies,...
The scholarship program connects financial assistance for students with Brooks’ role in breaking a racial barrier at the South Carolina institution more than 60 years ago.
America knows the photograph. Nine courageous teenagers walked into Little Rock Central High School while an angry White segregationist resistance made Arkansas the center of an in...
The initiative brings New Orleans’ Civil Rights and education history to life during the third week of November with field trips, reenactments and social events. [...] Read More......
Students and alumni say Missouri shortchanged its historically Black land-grant university by hundreds of millions of dollars compared with the University of Missouri.
The neighborhoods that the old 6th District gathered up—strung along rivers, railroads, and interstates from Shreveport to Baton Rouge—are the exact communities left scattered apar...
Historic Black governor races, a diesel fuel shift, and one Baltimore woman bringing books directly to children.
*The More Than a Fraction Foundation’s (MTAFF) founder historian/author Dr. Kerri Moseley-Hobbs (“More Than a Fraction: Based on a True Story”), along with Ashley Reichelmann and J...
Leon Stapleton, Kansas City's first African American grocer, passed away on Monday at age 100.
Airports across America honor notable Black icons by bearing their names, showcasing their inspiring legacies.
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