Louis Stokes, Ohio’s first African-American congressman and an alumnus and faculty member of Case Western Reserve, died Tuesday with his wife, Jay, by his side. He was 90, and had been diagnosed with ...

Congressman Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) announced the introduction of a pair of bills to commemorate the life and legacy of African American Mess Attendant Doris “Dorie” Miller. During the attack on ...

Since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, the dog whistle has become a bullhorn. The whitewashing of American history is no longer implied—it’s spelled out in ink, signed into law, ...

African American soldiers and white officers from ... The following spring, the Confederate Congress passed a law that allowed the death penalty for white officers of black units and provided ...

The Society of African American Studies hosted Black Maternal Health ... The article is entitled, "SLU historian: Politicians ignore Martin Luther King’s fight for poor people, workers." St. Louis ...

These drillers were some of the few African American workers on the construction site. In 1933, there were only 24 African Americans in a work force of 4,000 men. Bureau of Reclamation.