Dr. Christopher Harvey, the mayor of Manor, Texas, attended the 2025 African American Mayors Association conference to ...

Shukrani Gray, head of access and opportunity at the library, has worked extensively with The HistoryMakers database, and she ...

New Orleans is that kind of community where we all need to get along with each other,” said longtime a congregation member.

UNO entered Saturday with the chance at a statement sweep. The Privateers already won the series over Houston Christian, ...

Progressive icon and former U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee declared victory Saturday as the new mayor of troubled Oakland, a San Francisco Bay Area city reeling from economic ...

For family and friends, the downtown bronze statue dedication for Harriet Elizabeth “Liz” Byrd is something “long overdue.” ...

Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Pamela Goodwine — the first Black woman elected to the high court — was officially sworn into ...

It’s perhaps the most urgent reason Democrats lost in November: The party has solidly lost the support of working-class voters across the country and doesn’t have a solid sense of how to win them back ...

ESSENCE Magazine and the Essence Festival of Culture have been a beacon of Black excellence, a cultural celebration of who we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re going. From its inception, ESSENCE ...

The 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina feels particularly heavy as it forces us to confront the culmination of memory, ...

Two days after the Lager Beer Riot, on April 23, 1885, Chicago citizens convened at South Market Hall for a public meeting on ...