It was the deadliest tornado in United States history.

But Fuller “was really one of those people who didn’t accept ‘no’ for an answer,” Branson recalled learning from a conversation she had with one of his family members a few years ago. READ MORE ...

One hundred years ago this Sunday, the Ellis Island wave ... industrialists actually roamed the South essentially begging people, black or white, to come work for them. Without the 1924 law ...

That’s because the 100-year-old story of Detroit Memorial ... cemetery owners didn’t want their white customers to see Black people coming in. Some of them would ask the Blacks to come late ...

So, starting with 1928, we have all the Black History Month themes to look back on. According to the ASALH, "Over the years, the themes reflect changes in how people of African descent in the ...

US black nationalist leader Malcolm X was assassinated on 21 February 1965, at the age of 39. The BBC reported on the reaction in his adopted home of Harlem, New York, as thousands of people ...