In 1944, a group of eight Howard University students took a stand against the status quo in segregated Virginia. Now, a ...

Rosa Parks would have turned 112 this weekend. Twenty years after her death, her legacy in the face of Jim Crow laws and her ...

ABC 33/40 is taking time to honor the achievements and legacies of African Americans for Black History Month.Each day we will ...

Content warning: This piece includes an account of an apparent suicide.

The Paved Over Prominence Project led by Samantha Dorm tells the story of York's now gone Black historic sites, businesses ...

After Ku Klux Klan members boarded a bus and attacked ... organising a “freedom ride” to challenge the segregationist Jim Crow laws of the southern states. In 1946, and again in 1960, the ...

her legacy in the face of Jim Crow laws and her dedication to non-violent civil rights change is continuing to be honored. The city of Atlanta hosted her historic bus on Friday, the day before the ...

Kraken anthem singer Tommie Burton lives a life full of a lot of different notes, including the celebration of his mother, ...

This week, with the Super Bowl in New Orleans, Lynn Warlick-Sloof is thinking often of her father. He played a central role ...

Several white men boarded and sat among the Black riders, who, against custom in the Jim Crow South, were seated throughout the bus instead of in the back. The next stop was Anniston, a small town ...

That began to change on Dec. 1, 1955 — 70 years ago next December — when one woman on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus decided she had had enough of segregation and Jim Crow laws. Rosa Parks ...

Initiated by Victor Green in 1936, the book started with about 15 pages and expanded to include locations in every state ...