A statue of Jefferson Davis, second from left, is on display in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington. A slaveholder, Davis represented Mississippi...
1945: Jesse James Payne was lynched in Madison County, Florida
OCTOBER 9
1806—Benjamin Banneker dies in Ellicott Mills, Md., at age 74. Banneker was a brilliant...
National Urban League President/CEO Marc Morial and his mother, Mrs. Sybil Haydel Morial
NEW ORLEANS – The Morial family has announced the passing of their...
Tariq Nasheed, director of Microphone Check, a documentary about Hip-hop (Credit: Kickstarter).
By Corli Jay
With her most recent album "Cowboy Carter," Beyonce has sparked conversations...
by Nancy Mitchell, North Carolina State University
When historians and pundits praise Jimmy Carter’s achievements as the US president and extol his exemplary post-presidential years,...
Last week, the Delaware State legislature approved a constitutional amendment to all but remove the last Jim Crow-era voter suppression law from its...
