By Katherine Lewin, diversityinc.com John Conyers, Jr., who co-founded the Congressional Black Caucus, helped create Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and became the longest-serving Black person...
African-American Issues Brings Together Hundreds at Convention Freedom Party Hosts First Statewide Convention Several hundred from around the state packed the historic Siloam Presbyterian Church to...
What a strange history lesson Henry Louis Gates gives in an April 23 New York Times Op Ed. He begins “Thanks to an unlikely confluence of...
Remembering Elsie Richardson … Our Time Press launches their March 9 – 30 Womens History Month Phenomenal Women series this...
Legislation for Establishment of African Burial Ground Museum and Education Center Reintroduced by Bernice Elizabeth Green Congressman Dan Goldman (D-10)...
– by Bernice Elizabeth Green The Flatbush African Burial Ground Coalition is a Black-led multiracial coalition of local residents, activists,...
By Suzanne SpellenThe day after graduation, he was appointed the assistant engineer for the construction of the Albany and Greenbush...
Mrs. Ollie McClean, the beloved community activist, and teacher who “educated young minds for more than 30 years” and encouraged...
A Profile in Black History by Suzanne SpellenWe shouldn’t have to wait for Black History Month to highlight important men...
by Fern Gillespie What would Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History Month and founder of the Association...
Farrell Evans, history.com During the late 1870s and early 1880s, as many as 40,000 African Americans migrated from the South...