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.

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 ...

Booker T. Washington urged unions to admit Black workers as a way to alleviate racial tensions. Universal History Archive/Getty Images In reality, Black workers were just a small percentage of ...

Booker T. Washington’s daughter Portia Washington Pittman once taught music at the Dallas school named for her father. ... The author, Piper Huguley, is an ... like Alice, who isn’t allowed to ...

As with many Target trips, Nevada US history teacher Tierra Espy left the store with more items than she intended to buy on Sunday.. She added a magnetic activity book about iconic Civil Rights ...

The product, called “Civil Rights Magnetic Learning Activity,” puts the wrong names to the faces of icons including W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington.