The famous “I Have a Dream” speech, arguably the best-known public statement by Martin Luther King Jr., was given at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In it, King urged the nation on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Denise Smith began working for the federal government a half century ago, during President Richard Nixon's administration. She was ...

When Francine Verdine took a job as a clerk at the Internal Revenue Service in Houston in 1983, it was supposed to be a stopgap until something better came along. She didn’t expect that 42 years later ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "Between 1966 and 2015, the city of Atlanta was transformed. Black politicians ascended to the top of the power structure for the first time ...

Zohran Mamdani has a problem with the black political establishment, as well as the black middle class. And he knows it, ...

Shirley Hopkins helped recruit countless Black students in Washington, D.C., for the National Institutes of Health's internship and youth employment programs before retiring to Clinton, Md. Her career ...

Black middle class built through federal labor is at risk amid sweeping budget cuts. For decades, federal employment has provided the Black middle class with stability and a pathway to building wealth ...

A Minnesota public high school appears to have held classes open to black students only — a possible violation of the US Constitution’s most fundamental anti-segregation laws. South High School, a ...

A "Black 2 Class" student block party was scrapped as Mizzou administrators found its naming discriminatory. The University of Missouri has officially canceled a Black student event in light of ...

In today’s classrooms, teaching Black history has become a challenge at best—and a dangerous proposition at worst. In many states, politicians have demanded teachers alter their curriculum over fears ...