Her landmark book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” was among the first 20th-century autobiographies of a Black woman to reach a wide readership.

Master P opens up about his brother C-Murder’s two-decade fight against Louisiana’s Jim Crow jury verdict law. Master P confronts the painful reality of his brother’s incarceration while discussing ...

The civil rights pioneer Bernard Lafayette, who joined Freedom Rides and fought for voting rights in the Jim Crow South, has died at the age of 85. In the 1960s, Lafayette was a member of the Student ...

Amid its tony palm tree-lined neighborhoods and luxury shopping destinations, issues surrounding the treatment of people of ...