The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Thursday, making her the first Black woman and former public defender to serve on the...
At only 35 years old, Johnson is also the city’s first millennial mayor, bringing in a new generation to political power to City Hall.
Renee Poussaint, an award-winning journalist who anchored for CBS and ABC and later turned into a lecturer, has passed away. She was 77.
Just recently Dr. Clarence Benjamin Jones, personal counsel, draft speech writer, and friend to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took time out from his busy schedule...
The Florida native won the 500 meters Sunday with a time of 37.04 seconds, giving Team USA's speedskating program its first medal of the Beijing Games.
Andre Leon Talley was a trailblazer in the fashion industry who worked tirelessly to promote more diversity on the runway.
A new US quarter featuring the late Maya Angelou went into circulation Monday, the US Mint announced, making the iconic poet and activist the first Black...
Sidney Poitier, whose groundbreaking work made him Hollywood's first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died. He...
Black Music and Entertainment Walk of Fame has announced its 2022 inductees which includes icons such as Ray Charles, Cicely Tyson.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Anglican cleric known for his civil and human rights work to end apartheid in his native South Africa, has...
