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which is online at History Makers, Elias Rodriguez lives in the Avondale neighborhood of Chicago. That's where law enforcement visited on Thursday morning in Chicago. 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez ...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Freedom House Ambulance Service set the standard for emergency medical care, laying the ...

BANGOR, Maine — Maine is full of history. But one piece that often goes unrecognized is the role Black Americans and civil rights leaders played in building the state we know today. A walking tour led ...

Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner hailed his players for writing a new chapter in Crystal Palace's history following their ... 3,000-year-old Iron Age cemetery discovered in Al Ain 100 years ...

May, like all months, is filled with moments critical to the history and movement of Black people. May produced several giants of “our story.” The month also witnessed groundbreaking court decisions ...

A North Carolina legislator says President Donald Trump is the reason why one of the world’s largest corporations decided to scrap a Black History Month recognition on its widely used calendar app.

nearly 64% of Black children have little to no swimming ability. The statistic is decades in the making, reflecting America’s long history of racial intolerance at pools that conflicted a little ...

Anika Lopes, who founded Ancestral Bridges, said the site is the first in town to explore the erased, obscure and lesser known Black and Afro-Indigenous history in Amherst. Calling it the “first ...

This order threatens not only the ability of institutions to engage with the honest and truthful telling of Black history, but also our shared ability as a nation to understand Black history as a ...

Bill Price scours the internet for old black and white photographs and brings fragments of Florida history to life with color. The Monticello native, now retired and living in Roswell ...

Among them were the classic American history chronicle Lies ... In it, Rodell had written notes in blue and black pen. Sitting in an easy chair, the 84-year-old spoke with pursed lips as he ...