Detroit’s Black population grew sixfold from 1910 to 1920, and many businesses that sprouted to welcome the newcomers ...

Few images are as relentlessly recycled as the portrait of “angry feminists” burning their bras in protest of the 1968 Miss ...

Clarksville, TN is showcasing its rich legacy of African American culture in a recently expanded African American Legacy ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, and Chicago-born Cardinals Robert Prevost and Wilton Gregory would be part ...

Luther "Badman" Keith died unexpectedly Wednesday, his friends confirmed to CBS Detroit. He was a jazz musician who had ...

In the midst of award show season, everything points to Oscar Sunday. The show, which celebrates achievement in film, is my most-important night of the year and my friends and I go all out. Themed ...

George E. Johnson, at 97, is a rich man. He’s been a rich man since the 1960s. He’s owned yachts, cattle ranches and a home ...

So, she bought black face makeup, an afro wig, a suit and fedora ... Cut that she would 'nod like a brother' when she saw black men in the street. 'I really feel an affinity because I have ...

One story that stuck with Hartfield takes place shortly after her grandmother, Thelma Shepherd Rone, arrived in the North. It ...

A timely new exhibit surveys the work of a committed champion of the oppressed and marginalized.

But then came the cultural upheaval of the 1960s and beards and longer hair on men were au courant ... Oscar Gamble had to cut his famously thick afro to play for the Yankees.

Colin Powell, the Tuskegee Airmen and other minorities have been scrubbed from military sites. But an honor roll of war ...