Braids are a multicultural hair fashion. Braiding has been identified in Africa, Greece, Italy and Egypt dating as far back as 2000 BC. Along with the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Our national myth is that America was settled by good white people who brought this land to its full potential through hard work...
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump says manufacturers have “aggressively misled Black women to increase their profits.” He recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of a client...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — From Freedom’s Journal to the North Star to John Abbott’s Chicago Defender, African American-owned newspapers have sparked fires for truth and equality that...
The HALS Challenge is a national competition sponsored by the National Park Service to document historic landscape projects. This year’s prompt was to document landscapes in...
Also known as Emancipation Day or Freedom Day, it commemorates the end of slavery, the seminal event in Black history.
Brett Zongker, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The first log slave quarters with dirt floors to be rebuilt at Thomas Jefferson’s home were formally unveiled...