Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child from West Africa and sold into slavery in Boston. Despite systemic ...

Richard Allen, born into slavery near Smyrna, rose to found the AME Church and promote rights for African Americans.

Gary Tyler’s lifelong struggle for justice, both personally and socially, animates his artistic work as a quilt maker. His ...

Protests in Davenport about federal cuts, the opening of an African American museum in Waterloo, a Sioux City refugee ...

After Iowa lawmakers rushed to get legislation through the necessary hoops to meet the first deadline of the session last ...

Martin Luther King III, the son of revered civil rights icons Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, directly ...

Renovations to the Allen AME Church in Cape May are nearing completion and the historical building will soon become the ...

Located just outside the city proper, Bonaventure Cemetery deserves its reputation as one of the most beautiful final resting ...

While London boasts some of the most famous museums and art galleries in the world, the rest of the UK is blessed with so ...

Renowned author Percival Everett spoke with the IUN community about his new novel, "James," a literary rebuttal to "Huckleberry Finn." ...

Justifiably or not, it is an “accepted fact” that Black Americans are the most “religious” racial/ethnic group in the US as defined by Pew Research Center statistics on self-identification of ...