He died in 1915 and was buried at Tuskegee University in a brick tomb made my students with a view of the campus.

Human progress is never inevitable. It only comes through the tireless work and persistent efforts of dedicated individuals.

Carol Becker is a writer, educator, and former dean of Columbia University School of the Arts and The School of the Art ...

Robbins, known for his absurdist novels, studied at a forerunner of Virginia Commonwealth University and briefly worked at ...

In an exclusive TV interview with "CBS Mornings," the mother of Stephen "tWitch" Boss talks about the recent release of the ...

Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

Coleen Grant Hardin first met Tennessee Williams. “He was very shy,” says the Austin writer and performer about the great ...

The inventor Otis Frank Boykin, known for inventing the wire precision resistor, was born on August 29, 1920 in Dallas, Texas ...

Alan Hollinghurst has a well-earned reputation as one of the great stylistic writers of our time. If this praise sounds overly exuberant, consider the beguiling opening paragraph from a prior novel, ...

Scrubbing history is just one way federal agencies and contractors have responded to the executive order banning federal Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs.

It is a long way from chopping cotton in the Mississippi Delta to the President’s Office at Jarvis Christian University.

African American parents in Warren County have always wanted what was best for their children. They wanted better school buildings and facilities, competent and certified principals and teachers, alon ...