We Want the Funk!” shows how funk music fueled a pro-Black resistance in the face of racist repression — and may offer some lessons in fighting Trumpism.

Featuring a new foreword by the late Nikki Giovanni and interviews with Marc Lamont Hill and rapper Noname, Prose to the ...

George E. Johnson, the man who put black hair care on the map, built a business with profit sharing, health care, and college tuition reimbursement, and his life became iconic, but he never ...

Describing my 2017 appointment as a faculty member, the University of Virginia dubbed me the school's "first" hip-hop ...

Photo: Mormon converts Wynetta Willis Martin Clark (left) and Marilyn Yuille joined the Tabernacle Choir in 1969 and 1970.

Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.

When musician Ella Jenkins appeared on the show, she brought Black diasporic music and her signature songs to televisions ...

Yet King understood that racism, segregation, and police brutality were a national condition, not a regional issue. Many of ...

April 15 is Jackie Robinson Day, marking the date he broke baseball's color barrier. But the number of African Americans ...

By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen March 28, 2025 One hundred and three years after his body was found hung from a sapling along the banks of the White River, George Tompkins is finally getting ...

The documentary covers Lennon and Ono's early life in New York's West Village, when they were consumed with using their ...

Former Utah congresswoman Mia Love, who died after battling brain cancer, didn’t emphasize her race during her campaigns, but ...