Given the often-dark history of the United States, African Americans have had to work triple-time to bring justice and ...

Explore the 53rd Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus, focusing on Black voices and policy ...

WASHINGTON – Civil rights leaders and issue-based advocacy organizations gathered on Capitol Hill today to urge members ... millions of Americans to participate fully in our democracy. Congress must ...

South Africa’s history is a powerful narrative of liberation, resistance, and triumph over oppression. The African National ...

The current Congress - the US legislative branch of government, made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate - has 57 African-American members, up from 55 in the previous term.

African-Americans have fought for the United States throughout its history, defending and serving a country that in turn denied them their basic rights as citizens. Despite policies of racial ...

“For more than 200 years, African Americans ... a war in which Black Americans did not serve proudly. But throughout most of American history, Black service members faced great adversity.

Former South African president Jacob Zuma was expelled by his former African National Congress party on Monday ... Zuma has ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States Mint launched a new coin Tuesday featuring jazz legend Duke Ellington, making him the first African ... Institution's National Museum of American History ...

It comprised Jewish, Catholic and Unitarian members. Working class and elite members. Natural born and naturalized citizen members. And, importantly, white and African American members ... chairman of ...

Mahoney was one of the first black members ... to African Americans then. There, he made improvements that reduced the hospital's mortality rate. In 1895, he helped to organize the National ...

National Veterans of Foreign Wars Day, September 29, acknowledges the men and women who have served honorably in the U.S. military overseas in war or other imminent danger. The VFW traces its ...