The book’s title, In the Light of Dawn, references the Dawn Settlement, a hopeful name given to a community founded largely ...

When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, ...

Content warning: This piece includes an account of an apparent suicide.

A resident is speaking out after a teacher at Rosa Parks Middle School in Dixmoor made comments supporting mass deportation.

Sometimes, dignity can come with something as simple as a name tag. In 1925, dignity came for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car ...

Other places hit by wildfires advise Los Angeles to rebuild public spaces that capture the generosity and bonds felt among ...

Emmanuel George holds a deck of Black Broward Flashcards that he created to celebrate and educate about the county’s rich Black history. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com Not everyone in Broward knows ...

In fabled cross-country walk from Ohio, Lummis traversed the desert, Cucamonga and Pomona into L.A. 140 years ago this week.

We humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, so naturally, certain things have slipped through the cracks ...

In February, you can celebrate Black History Month with a variety of WTTW programming that explores the political, artistic, ...

Civil rights activist Ida B. Wells will be featured on newly minted U.S. quarters. Historian Raffi Andonian joins Jenye Donaldson to share Wells' story.