April 25 (UPI) --The U.S. Navy on Saturday plans to christen the future Sojourner Truth, a John Lewis-class fleet replenishment oiler that honors the famous American Black woman, in San Diego.

Efforts to take the focus off the nation’s racial past in compliance with President Trump’s wishes face resistance from those ...

But all of them changed history. Thurgood Marshall was the first Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice ... in the face of systemic violence. Sojourner Truth was born enslaved in 1797, but she spent ...

April 25 (UPI) --The U.S. Navy on Saturday plans to christen the future Sojourner Truth ... Black woman to win such a case against a White man in 1828. She died in 1883 at age 86. There is an exhibit ...

Barbara Allen, sixth great-granddaughter of Sojourner Truth, says she’ll never forget the ceremony where the U.S. Navy christened a John Lewis-class oiler the USNS Sojourner Truth in honor of the ...

Blessed Makahamadze was in the car with his parents on the way to Applebee's when a fateful email arrived in his inbox.

Elizabeth Hays, a white woman from central North Carolina, had never been to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. But earlier this month, after she read about Donald Trump ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A historic promotion at the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office resulted in the first African-American Chief Deputy in the department’s 180-year history. Anthony ...

“Because the act’s ‘text and history’ use these terms ‘to ... Harry S. Truman, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Dorothy Vaughan, C. T. Vivian, John von Neumann, Thomas Ustick Walter ...

As a Black woman in America ... founding documents and taught in history books, the other etched into the backs and bones of those who were enslaved, excluded, and exploited. Those are my people.