There’s something almost ironic about influence. Sometimes the most powerful ideas don’t come from the names everyone ...

It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

Edith Renfrow Smith grew up in the 1910s hearing her grandparents’ stories of surviving slavery, including a grandfather who ...

The U.S. Postal Service will honor Phillis Wheatley, the first published African American poet, with the 49th Black Heritage ...

The U.S. Postal Service honors Phillis Wheatley, the first African American author to publish a book, with the 49th Black Heritage stamp.

Atlanta’s beloved Medu Bookstore, a prominent African American-owned bookstore located in Greenbriar Mall for over 35 years, is closing at the end of March 2026 as owner Nia Damali retires, marking ...

Rep. Jim Clyburn’s book, The First Eight, tells of the first eight SC African-American congressmen and how they were forced ...

Senegal have booked their place in the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals after Pape Gueye ’s first-half brace helped them ...

A longtime African American–owned bookstore in Atlanta is preparing to close its doors after more than three decades serving ...

But for me, the AJC has been more than a paper. It has been a companion, a teacher, and on more than one occasion, the ...

The American Cemetery in the Dutch village of Margraten has become a flashpoint over the removal of displays honoring Black ...

Arkansas lost many well-known figures in 2025, including former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, FedEx founder Fred Smith and Razorbacks basketball star Oliver Miller.