Earl Frazier endured racism in the South, moved to Chicago as a teen, and became a self-made millionaire. Now, he is turning 103. Born on April 28, 1922, in Pluckemin Bayou, Mississippi, Frazier will ...

Following his (temporary) expulsion from the Tennessee House of Representatives, Black lawmaker Justin Pearson told reporters that one could not ignore the “racial dynamic” of Republicans’ efforts to ...

If you’re a fan of the momentous talent competition show, America’s Got Talent, or have caught clips from the show, one of the stars to be discovered was not from a circus act or what some might deem ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia district attorney said he may revisit a decades-old case in which the state Supreme Court overturned ...

There was a moment last Sunday afternoon where old words became new again. Really new. The words affected me a lot differently than the first time I heard them so many decades ago. On this day, they ...

After reconstruction, the transitional period immediately following the Civil War, a slow and steady stream of African Americans began leaving the South for the North and the West. A bigger exodus, ...

The January 1950 murder trial that ended in a conviction of Black Carrollton sharecropper Clarence Henderson seemed ripped from a Southern Gothic potboiler. He had been arrested less than a month ...