Mary Jamila Dozier-Jones was only 8 years old when she started the Montgomery Gospel Trio with Minnie Hendricks-McKents and ...

The increase in domestic violence bucks a broader trend of declining and flat crime: Denver’s violent crime — sex assaults, robberies, murders and aggravated assaults — stayed almost flat in ...

Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. For this week’s column, ...

A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of ...

What began as Negro History Week — established by historian Carter G. Woodson in February 1926 — evolved into Black History ...

Robinson and her daughter had, at least for the moment, overcome the hurdles that cause many children in New Jersey's school districts to miss school far too frequently. Start the day smarter. Get all ...

Commemorative signs recognizing civil rights icon and activist Rosa Parks adorn seats in every Laktran and Geauga Transit vehicle during the agencies’ weeklong tribute. (Submitted ...

President Trump commuted Alice Johnson’s life sentence during his first term, and later pardoned her for her drug conviction.

A group of Hillsboro mothers and their children marched for two years to desegregate their community’s schools.

Today, February 4, marks what would have been Rosa Parks’ 112th birthday, a moment to honor her unwavering fight for civil rights. Often recognized as part of the ‘Holy Trinity’ of Black ...

Feb. 27 — In 1869, John Willis Menard rose from his seat in the chamber of the U.S. Congress to defend his status as the ...

His rise to prominence started with his role in the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, a pivotal moment in the movement sparked by Rosa Parks’ arrest ... from Birmingham Jail" in 1963 encapsulated ...