OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer - Explore the challenges faced by African Americans caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s through the lenses of two veteran photographers living through it.
The Great Migration is now history, but the lessons learned from a study of its pioneers can accelerate Detroit’s future ...
Preservationists seek to restore Cemetery School building that served Black children from 1941 to 1962 prior to desegregation ...
"Failure is a word I simply don't accept," said John Harold Johnson in an interview once. He faced obstacles and controversy his entire life, but the Arkansas native rose from deep poverty to becoming ...
"Why isn't there a Smithsonian-level institute dedicated to the study of the culture and science behind food?" ...
"The flight was delayed for hours while we waited for the seat belt extender. It felt like everyone was looking at me with ...
In the crazy, tumultuous decades of the Old West, few lawmen’s names ring out like Bass Reeves. As one the few African ...
The Democrats may have lost because of a bad economy and bad candidate, but they compounded their troubles with unpopular ...
All this attention was a lot for this gay Black man from Harlem who had fled the church and the United States for a truer ...
North Carolina, like some other southern states, has laws that disenfranchise people with felonies from voting and other ...
The right of all Americans to pursue happiness may be inalienable, but it has little meaning when so many are denied the basic tools to use it.
Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr., the beloved Knoxville native and internationally recognized poet and provocateur, died Monday in Blacksburg, Virginia. Giovanni, 81, held many titles. She was a ...