Statistics about divorce rates in the African American community leads to beliefs that there’s no Black love. But when we turn on the television and see the Obamas smooching and hugging, we see hope. That optimistic attitude is apparent in Marita Go
Xavier University President Norman C. Francis is slated to receive the St. Katharine Drexel National Justice Award from the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in Bensalem, Pennsylvania - near Philadelphia.
The perennial debate about the need for Black History Month has intensified this year as the shock and awe of America electing its first Black president still reverberates across this land.
WASHINGTON–Foot-stomping music filled the East Room of the White House on Feb. 18 as first lady Michelle Obama hosted nearly 200 schoolchildren for a Black History Month celebration featuring Sweet Honey in the Rock, an award-winning female a cappel
Roland Laird and Taneshia Nash Laird, founders of Posro Media, one of the first Black-owned independent comic book companies in the early 1990s, bring history lovers a 217-page comic book, Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans.
Reared in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood in the early 1900s, award-winning journalist Ethel Lois Payne had a flair for words and writing, and according to one of her high school teachers, her work was reminiscent of renowned writer Ernest Hemingwa
WASHINGTON–“This awful slaughter,” was how Ida B. Wells described lynching, the murderous act of domestic terror that claimed the lives of about 5,000 Black Americans from 1890 to 1960.
