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Ernestine Shepherd was devastated when her sister and best friend, Mildred, died suddenly of an aneurysm. And then she decided to pay tribute by fulfilling the dream they had together.

Lorraine and Freddie Johnson are among the couples featured in a documentary in production about romance among homeless people

The national furor over a Duke University professor’s comments once again raises the contentious subject of ‘race talk’. Here’s a guide to why it’s so hard and some strategies for making it easier.

His words are a gift.

I want this letter to be bigger than that, something to mark this great transition in the life of our family, something you might carry with you through life.

The fees could rise nearly 500 percent for files documenting the arrival of millions of immigrants to the U.S. between the late 19th and mid 20th centuries

A former slave who became a deputy U.S. marshal, Bass Reeves brought scores of outlaws in Indian Territory to justice. Now he is lionized in HBO’s “Watchmen” and the subject of a new movie, “Hell on the Border.”

After his miraculous delivery to Philadelphia, the former Virginia slave reinvented himself as an actor, magician and hypnotist who mocked racist ideas and defied limits on 19th-century black men.

Georgette Nelson was 10 and her brother Wayne Cook was 8 when D.C. descended into chaos after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Now 62 and 60, the siblings hugged in California Friday for the first time in decades.

During the 1918 flu pandemic, a band of angry residents saw masks as an infringement on their freedom, just as some people do today

Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis and other civil rights leaders made some of the same demands that are likely to be repeated at Friday’s march.

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First lady Jill Biden plans to visit Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean Va., on Monday as children there get vaccinated against covid. In 1954, Franklin Sherman second-graders were the first in the country to get polio shots.

Experts say there are powerful reasons why the 1 million-plus waiting list to adopt a U.S. infant will not shrink much, despite the end of Roe v. Wade

Sarah Rector was 11 years old in 1913 when oil was discovered on land she owned in Oklahoma. Her sudden wealth became the object of racist news coverage.

The statue of civil rights heroine Barbara Johns will replace Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Statuary Hall

A day before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln signed a contract to send hundreds of formerly enslaved people to Haiti

The Human Genome Project convinced the vast majority of scientists that race doesn’t exist. Now a cohort of professionals and academics wants to change society.

The murders of her Osage relatives for their oil wealth still reverberate in the life of Margie Burkhart, granddaughter of a central character in the new movie.

Edward Garrison Draper was posthumously admitted to the bar Thursday following a push by a White Texas lawyer with a passion for Black History.