Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church,' journalist Kevin Sack offers perspective on the historic Black church, beyond the 2015 murder of nine members.

Booker T. Washington National Monument will be recognizing 160 years since emancipation with its Juneteenth celebration starting June 20. The three-day event will provide historical context and ...

Sen. Cory Booker took hold of the Senate floor Monday night and, as of early Tuesday afternoon, was still speaking. He has, however, occasionally interrupted by Democratic colleagues to whom he yie… ...

Booker T. Washington, left, and W.E.B. Du Bois, right, were two intellectual Black Americans who had differing aspirations for their people in the early 20th Century. (AFRO Archive Photo) ...

Booker T. Washington was an American educator, author and also the founder of Tuskegee University in 1881, an institution for higher education for black students. “Learning something new, I love it.

Kilmeade emphasizes that courage, vision and the striving for self-improvement made Washington and Roosevelt, and by extension the nation, great. Yet, the author places that greatness within the ...

For instance, the first Black American to be featured on a stamp was educator Booker T. Washington in 1940, but nearly six decades would pass before Washington’s contemporary, sociologist and ...

We know a few of them, the men mostly: Frederick Douglass, W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington are likely mentioned in our history books. Among the women we know: Sojourner Truth and Ida B. Wells.

In his 1913 essay “The Negro and the Labor Unions,” educator Booker T. Washington urged unions to end their discriminatory practices, which forced Black Americans into becoming “a race of ...

Booker T. Washington High School students from a Dance and Media class worked with the Dallas Center for Photography for capture images of dance. Long lauded for its nurturing atmosphere of ...