Source: Udo Salters Photography / Getty Nikki Giovanni is now an ancestor. So many of us who loved her are still struggling with that reality while also understanding
Source: Express Newspapers / Getty UPDATED: 8:00 a.m. ET, Feb. 21, 2025 Today marks 60 years since Malcolm X was assassinated on Feb. 21, 1965. He was only
Source: Dmytro Chernykov / Getty UPDATED: 8:00 AM EST February 20, 2025 In the intricate tapestry of racial epithets that mar American history, there exists one word that
A 1902 portrait of Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific
A portrait of Harriet Tubman in 1878. Library of Congress/Getty Images Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she
Source: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / Getty Washington, D.C.—The D.C. State Board of Education’s College, Career, and Life Readiness Committee (CCLRC) is being disbanded, raising concerns about disruption to student
Back view of American civil rights leader and Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr., dressed in black robes and holding out his hands towards the thousands of people
Outside the opening session of the 1960 Republican National Convention, an orderly crowd of demonstrators (including Martin Luther King, Jr., being interviewed at left) urges the party to
Source: Andy Mead/ISI Photos / Getty As the school year approaches its final stretch in 2025, high school seniors are starting to make their final preparations for life
