Black History

Reuters Frank Robinson, who in 1975 became Major League Baseball’s first African American manager and is considered one of the game’s greatest players, died Feb. 7 at the age of 83. Robinson, known also for […]

Special to The Dallas Examiner Although America’s Declaration of Independence and Constitution are premised on the principles of democracy, the historical treatment of America’s citizens of color is replete with racial dichotomies. Even today, the […]

(NNPA) – Born May 11, 1906, Richard Arvin Overton, a member of what is often called America’s “Greatest Generation,” died Dec. 27 in Austin. At 112 years and 230 days, Overton was believed to be […]

Urban News Service Inside a provocative exhibit about Thomas Jefferson and slavery, Bishop T.D. Jakes was reminded of his own enslaved ancestors. Jakes, who has visited Africa many times, proudly talked about his Nigerian roots. […]

(NNPA) – The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced that one year after the launch of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, the organization has hit a funding milestone, raising more than $10 million […]

(NNPA) – Most violence occurs between victims and offenders of the same race, regardless of race, according to an evidence brief from the Vera Institute of Justice, titled An Unjust Burden: The Disparate Treatment of […]

(NNPA) – Slavery was a legalized institution that negatively impacted the lives of many people of African descent, while making countless Southern White slave and plantation owners extraordinarily wealthy as a result of this system […]

The Dallas Examiner A curated collection at the African American Museum in Fair Park offers a view of slavery in the U.S. that plainly conflicts with the concept of freedom, as well as underscores the […]

The Commercial Appeal MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – When Irene and Clint Cleaves opened The Four Way Grill in 1946, they couldn’t have known that the tiny restaurant attached to a pool hall and a barbershop […]

Capital News Service RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – The year was 1951. The place: Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where Henrietta Lacks, a native of Halifax County, Virginia, sought treatment for cervical cancer. Doctors made a […]