Greenwood Rising will display a new marker as part of the Oklahoma African-American Historic Trail, honoring Black Wall Street and Black frontier towns. Installation is set for spring.

Lorraine Hansberry was a Chicago playwriting legend. Her father Carl was a real estate broker turned civil rights activist.

The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its ...

While Till's accused killers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury, the two later admitted to Till ...

“I’ve actually seen this exhibition at the Chicago Institute of Art — it’s an exhibition ... it referenced a time before the ...

Parker sat down with 12 News Gerron Jordan to discuss the murder that sparked the Civil Rights Movement. Two men kidnapped, tortured and lynched Till in Drew, Mississippi. Till was visiting ...

Frustrated that the American Railway Union had refused to accept Black railway workers, which by 1925 had swelled to more that 10,000 porters, Randolph led a push to form the Brotherhood of Sleeping ...

Civil rights activist Ida B. Wells will be featured on newly minted U.S. quarters. Historian Raffi Andonian joins Jenye Donaldson to share Wells' story.

While historical tensions have been acknowledged, a shared solidarity and activism highlighted the relationship between ...

In his new book, Afro Sheen, the legendary founder of the Johnson Products Company chronicles his creation of a business empire that spanned the Jim Crow era, the Civil Rights movement and the rise of ...