No inter-minority partnership in U.S. history has been as productive — or as fragile — as the bond between Black and Jewish Americans. Together we helped dismantle Jim Crow and broaden this ...

For many in the Natchez community, the scars from racism run deep and the struggle is far from over, as evidenced by stories ...

After becoming a stage sensation in France, the American-born Josephine Baker undertook espionage for the Allies in World War ...

Jefferson Davis' birthday is one of three confederate holidays in Alabama. See when it is observed and what closures will happen.

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May 19 would have been the 100th birthday of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, the man most know as Malcolm X. As such, Black folks ...

One of the highlights of my genealogical journey has been the great privilege I have had to spend two decades corresponding with grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the owner of my ...

Mississippi celebrates the birthday of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on Memorial Day. Here's what to know about the state holiday ...

Former Mississippi State basketball player Jimmy Bell Jr. received an NFL rookie minicamp invite from the Los Angeles Chargers. Bell hasn't played football since high school but briefly practiced ...

GARY, Ind. (WISH) — On April 22, 1959, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Gary, Indiana, to accept the key to the city. Sixty-five years later, his daughter, Dr ...