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The trip back in time was a difficult and emotional journey for a local youth group that toured portions of the southeastern U.S. last month on a quest to understand what it was like to be a ...

Five locations in across Aiken County feature deep ties to African American history including Redcliffe Plantation and ...

Forest Hill Church Presbyterian in Cleveland Heights is launching an Educational Equity Program to help Black women in its ...

The history ... example, were key figures in the 1871 founding of Aiken County. After the disastrous flood of 1929, however, ...

By showcasing artifacts and stories shared by longtime residents of Martindale-Brightwood, the Polklore Micro-Museum is an ...

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted stark racial inequities in the U.S. healthcare landscape, disproportionately killing and harming Black Americans.

In a legal settlement stemming from a right-wing lawsuit, the Fearless Fund, an investment group geared toward women of color, has agreed to end its grant program for Black women. The news ...

As twilight descended on Ferguson, Missouri, for a third consecutive night after the killing of Michael Brown Jr. by a police officer, Gwendolyn DeLoach Packnett could no longer hold her peace ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Reggie Cunningham, top, and his wife Ferguson activist Brittany Packnett-Cunningham pose for an image while ...

It demonstrated how the 40-year-old musical genre had joined, and in some cases supplanted, the Black church as the conscience ... leading a congregation proud of a history that had triumphed ...