The church was the starting point for the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights marches in 1965. Nearly a quarter of the trail’s sites are in Alabama, a place many consider ground zero for the civil ...

Seven decades after Rosa Parks was thrust indelibly into American history for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, ...

Lauren Dana Ellman is a New York-based writer and editor who specializes in travel, lifestyle, food, and shopping content. A staple of the National Mall, the Smithsonian National Museum of American ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent Black civil rights activist and Baptist minister from Atlanta.

The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts hosted its inaugural Kwanzaa family program on the third day of the weeklong Pan‑African ...

Almost 1,000 African Americans trained at the Army Airfield in Tuskegee, Alabama. Nearly half were sent overseas for combat ...

Lanett leaders launch a free six-week Black history course for local teens, promising unfiltered lessons, unsung heroes and ...

Incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will make history as the city's first mayor to take the oath of office on a Quran ...

Her activism began as a teenager in 1963, when she heard the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak. It set her on a path to ...

The Columbia Public Library launched its county-wide bookmobile in the 1930s. The two forces behind it were Lucy Hampton ...

Every state has a capitol that houses its state legislature. Many are domed buildings similar to the US Capitol, but others ...