Nichelle Nichols, who broke barriers for Black women in Hollywood as communications officer Lt. Uhura on the original “Star Trek” television series, died a week …

London (AP) – British civil rights campaigner Roy Hackett, a leader of a bus boycott that played a key role in ending legal racial discrimination …

Atlanta (AP) – Everyone who moves through downtown Atlanta today passes places where innocent Black men and women were pulled from trolleys, shot in their …

Savannah, Ga. (AP) An enclave of slave descendants on the Georgia coast have settled a federal lawsuit that claimed a lack of government services was …

A new philanthropic project hopes to invest $100 million in 10 countries, mostly in Africa, by 2030 to support 200,000 community health workers, who serve …

Milwaukee (AP) – Facing critical races for governor and U.S. Senate, Democratic hopefuls in Wisconsin are hoping that their support for abortion rights in the …

Washington (AP) — The first African American four-star general in Marine Corps history, Gen. Michael E. Langley, credited his father with telling him to “aim …

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP) – A former Florida deputy was acquitted Monday of a misdemeanor battery charge related to a viral video showing a Black …

Chicago (AP) – Emmett Till left his mother’s house on Chicago’s South Side in 1955 to visit relatives in Mississippi, where the Black teenager was …

Archaeologists in Virginia began excavating three suspected graves at the original site of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches on Monday, commencing a monthslong …