The courage of Aline Elizabeth Black Hicks helped pave the way toward equal pay for black educators.

Anthony Burns was the first person in the United States tried under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

Anthony Johnson’s life is a tale of what might have been.

Serene and doggedly committed to his causes, tennis champion Arthur Ashe was that rare athlete whose best years come after he’s done playing games....

The most telling legacy 1984 Olympic champion Benita Fitzgerald Mosley will leave is that of her dedication to promoting equality and fairness.

At the peak of his career on America’s leading vaudeville circuit in the 1920s, dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson earned an astonishing...

William "Billy" Lee was no ordinary slave on George Washington’s Mount Vernon plantation.

Camilla Williams, the daughter of a cook and a chauffeur in Danville, was a leading member of the generation of African-American singers who broke down...

Carter G. Woodson dedicated his life to researching and preserving the saga of the African-American experience. He became known as ‘'the father of...

Charles Sidney Gilpin "rose from obscurity to the peaks, lived his hour of triumph and returned to the shadows," Harlem Renaissance theater critic...