Black History Month is an annual observance centered on celebrating the history, heritage, cultural influence and social ...

As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...

Henry L. Marsh’s fight was for civil rights, but his values — justice, fairness, equality — extend far beyond any single ...

After reading a recent Sun-Times investigation on opioid deaths among a generation of Black men, WBEZ editor Alden Loury ponders the role of racism and segregation in those deaths.

At a time when the White House has targeted transgender people, the National Register of Historic Places has quietly inducted a San Francisco building where a group of trans and queer community ...

Every February, the United States commemorates Black History Month, a time dedicated to honoring the achievements, ...

Around the corner from the American Tobacco Campus downtown, a colorful mural of a pensive Episcopal priest covers the side ...

BALTIMORE -- Govans Presbyterian Church, founded in 1844, is one of Baltimore's oldest churches. On Sunday, the church dedicated an art display that celebrates its diversity and confronts its tainted ...

The parties reached a settlement in February 1959. The Harlem 9’s children would not enroll in the schools for which they were zoned. Nor would they be able to engage in “open choice” – the parents’ ...