It is not blood alone that binds Black Americans to this soil. America, as we know it today, simply would not exist without ...

The “grandfather clause” term originated after the U.S. Civil War and referred to statutes enacted in the South to keep African Americans from voting. Grandfather clauses can be permanent ...

At just 150 feet, the new trail is quite short, but it connects with the often-overlooked legacy of the Great Smoky Mountains ...

FALLS CHURCH, Va . (7News) — 7News is celebrating Black History Month and the African American community’s influence on sports. With basketball, that influence emerged in the nation’s ...

Their grandfathers all came to the Shipyard around 1943, pushed out by Jim Crow in the South and pulled in by the promise of ...

“That was the time, in the 30s, right, where you really couldn’t go see any other physician if you were Black in New Jersey. You would go see an African American physician," Mitchell told Sanchez.

The century‑long tradition of Singing on Grandfather recently returned to MacRae Meadows atop Grandfather Mountain. The free, ...

In “The Spinach King,” he unearths the story of how his grandfather created one of the world’s largest farming operations, as ...

Influential African American Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) Shutterstock ... Parks’ grandfather stood in front of their house ...

African-Americans have made a vast contribution for the history of South Carolina throughout it over 300-year history. The African-American story lies at the very heart of our heritage.

First off, Cory Booker is of African American and European descent. Many sources say his maternal grandfather was of Native American ancestry, though there is no widely known record of Booker ...

Decades-old artifacts related to slavery and civil rights are rotating out of exhibits at the African American History Museum, as a potential White House review looms.