Tampa's 48th mayor, Julian B. Lane, played a role in the Civil Rights Movement as one of the first southern mayors to support ...

The Department of Defense announced on January 31 that celebrating “identity months” is dead for the agency. The latest ...

Pullman porters did more than carry bags, they paved the way for higher education opportunities, the professional working ...

Jane Fonda will receive the Public Counsel's William. O Douglas Award on Feb. 27 for her commitment to social justice.

Hartley's Department Store was more than happy to take money from Black Fairmont residents but not employ them for front-end positions. Catherine Dooley Taylor helped change that. "Hartley, they had a ...

A formal memo from the Maryland National Guard's Joint Operations Center, dated Feb. 7, said the reserve component would be ...

Black History Month was recognized nationally in 1976, when President Gerald Ford designated the month as a time for the ...

The message prompted organizers to cancel the parade portion of the 207th Birthday Celebration of Frederick Douglass and ...

Frederick Douglass was an Eastern Shore native, abolitionist leader, social reformer, and one of the most important leaders of the movement for African American civil rights in the 19th century.

Dr. Marveta Ryan-Sams, coordinator of the Pan-African Studies Program, was in attendance of the Lunch and Learn. The ...

For Black History Month, a family member of a prominent figure in history was at the Springfield Museum of History.