A mentoring program for Black girls and young women takes participants on a 14-day tour to learn about Black history, the ...

Chicago Park District lifeguard Charles Leto, accused of killing a 15-year-old and critically wounding another boy outside ...

Despite mounting societal pressures and outright book bans, the queer literary landscape is richer and more varied than ever, ...

Bob the Drag Queen has launched production company Purse First Studios. The first project from the company is "The Big Question," an interview show hosted by Bob featuring friends, colleagues, fellow ...

Edda L. Fields-Black is the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History, and the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War.” Kate Clifford ...

Thomas Jefferson, steeped in Enlightenment philosophy, wrote that we have the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the ...

Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...

A personal reflection on Harriet Backer’s work and her exhibition at Kode Bergen, exploring her use of light, color, and ...

Celebrate Pride Month 2025 by adding Winging It With You, Loca, I Think They Love You, and these others LGBTQ+ books to your ...

In news that can only be described as “you’ve got to be kidding me,” yet another white woman is causing unnecessary headaches ...

“While Harriet Tubman is a household name, most people don’t know the breadth of her story—not only was she a conductor on the Underground Railroad but she was a spy for the Union army and ...

Disgraced Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson took a victory lap in her last meeting after resigning from the Council and painted herself as a victim of a ...