The Athens Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History is hosting a film series during Black ...

Celebrate a century of Black History Commemorations with Dr. Kaye Whitehead as she reflects on the significance of Black ...

Juneteenth, which commemorates June 19, 1865 — the day the last enslaved people in Texas were freed — was observed this week. But the WorldBeat Cultural Center in Balboa Park is continuing the ...

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MARKHAM, Ill. (WLS) -- Before moving to Chicago in 1963, he traveled across the Deep South, playing a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement of the early 1960s. Miller Green was a Freedom Rider, a ...

One of Pittsburgh’s biggest claims to medical fame is arguably also one of its best-kept secrets, Freedom House Ambulance Services. For the first time, that story is being told on stage, in “Freedom ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Samaria Helton had learned about Thomas Jefferson in school, but she didn’t know the former president had hundreds and hundreds of enslaved people until she recently visited his ...

Early on Monday morning, the Madleen ship, launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), was intercepted by the Israeli military about 185 km (100 nautical miles) from Gaza, in international ...

The History Colorado Center is among a select group of eight museums across the country chosen by the National Archives and ...

A new production dramatizes the creation of the nation’s first paramedic-staffed ambulance service and connects past public ...