When a history book includes a foreword written by the subject’s descendants, it signals that the author’s standard of ...

Annette Hubbell portrays the Black abolitionist, Sojourner Truth in her one-woman show, "Women Warriors." Annette Hubbell ...

Combine the secrecy of a papal conclave with the national rivalries of the Eurovision Song Contest and you have a sense of ...

Africa’s Christian right sees itself as a plucky, righteous David struggling against a godless, liberal Goliath. This has ...

The anti-Israel suspect accused of shooting and killing two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., was identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez of Chicago.

The story of Holt Collier, the bear guide for President Theodore Roosevelt on his famous 1902 Mississippi hunt.

This 2024 video filmed for Rhode Island PBS captures the distinctive vowel sounds that show up in some local accents: "Talk" is pronounced "tawk," "ours" comes out as "ahhs," and "poor" sounds almost ...

George Floyd's murder sparked an international protest movement for racial equity and policing changes. Five years later, ...

Today, it has become almost cliché to frame the antislavery figures from 19th-century America as prophets. David W. Blight’s ...

In Chicago, people are very excited about Pope Leo XIV, or Father Bob, as those who’ve known Robert Francis Prevost a long ...

The Trump administration seems more interested in surveillance than freedom, Curtis writes. But it will take more than that ...

Boston’s Museum of African American History has transported people to the past, letting visitors to a 200-year-old meeting ...