Black History
We celebrate the enduring legacy of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., founded on November 12, 1922. On the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, seven trailblazing young women established an organization dedicated to sisterhood, scholarship, and service. We honor the vision of these founders: Mary Lou Allison Gardner Little, Dorothy Hanley Whiteside, Vivian White […]
The exhibit, which opened in 2010, honors the lives of the nine enslaved people held there who were owned as property by President George Washington.
Civil rights activist Medgar Evers gave a televised speech in 1963 on the local station WLBT, speaking out against segregation in Mississippi.Â
On what would have been Assata Shakur’s 79th birthday, the Assata Shakur Memorial Committee launches a new digital archive to honor the legendary freedom fighter.
National Watermelon Month celebrates a refreshing treat, but the history of the popular fruit reveals how a symbol of Black liberation and economic success was transformed into a racist caricature.
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority empowers women through scholarship, service, sisterhood, and finer womanhood, with over 100,000 members globally.
From Reconstruction to affirmative action, gains for Black Americans have a history of triggering efforts to repeal them.Â
One freedom marker reminds us that liberation can be delayed, and the other reminds us that visibility is not the same as safety.
The GOP's complex relationship with Black Americans, from early civil rights to recent controversies over race and identity.
African American women overcome segregation, build golf club to play, and empower next generation
Former inmate Kerwin Pittman buys prison, transforming it into a transitional housing and workforce development hub for the formerly incarcerated.
With the recent success of rising rock band The Paradox, we looked back at the Black pioneers of alternative music who helped pave the way.