Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, has won the US presidential election, surpassing the 270 electoral votes required to ...

In the Jim Crow South, activists became martyrs at the hands of white racists, all for the just cause of using the vote to ...

President Barack Obama not only broke the highest glass ceiling in American politics but catalyzed a wave of new diverse ...

Scores of young leaders in the Church of God In Christ, America’s largest black Pentecostal denomination, have called on ...

Declining attendance at traditional activist churches may be one reason for weaker Black alliances with Democrats.

The civil rights movement improved the lives of African Americans as well as African Canadians. Conditions in Africa, meanwhile, have become increasingly dire—and are increasingly ignored ...

He recently completed his first Children’s book, 21st Century Great African American Political Leaders (Just Us Books), and a new anthology, Where Did Our Love Go: Personal Essays on Love ...

South Carolina is preparing to honor Robert Smalls, a former slave who became a prominent political leader, by erecting the first statue of an individual African American on its Statehouse lawn.

Vice President Harris and her allies are making a final appeal to Black male voters in key swing states, hoping to shore up the support of a voting bloc that has shown some signs of skepticism ...

This three-part series highlights their work as they build political power and demand ... many of them African American. She worried she'd be letting folks down at her organization.

Robert Smalls escaped slavery by stealing a slaveowner’s ship and later became a South Carolina political leader ... who will soon be the first African American individual with a statue at the South ...

Bold leadership and courageous commitment ... The discipline of African American Studies comprises critical, systematic engagement with historical, cultural, political and social experiences of people ...