Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this drawing from 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' a Black child is taken from his mother by a white man. Culture Club/Getty Images In or ...

As many people across the nation celebrate the 100th anniversary of Black History Month — initially called Negro History Week when it began in 1926 — I came across a newspaper photo from the 1960s.

It was all because they failed to support the newspaper owner's son for mayor in early 2023. Name-calling hurts. And some Black leaders in Springfield, Massachusetts, are calling for the boycott of a ...

In my biography of John Andrew Jackson, “A Plausible Man,” I detail his remarkable life. An old wooden fence surrounds a replica of a one-room windowless cabin in Chopin, La., like the one that might ...