Gertrude Theresa Hodges, the first African American to graduate Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, died March 28 at her East ...

In 1969, 18-year-old Lupenga Mphande was arrested for the first time in Malawi. As an active protester against oppressive governments in Malawi and South Africa, Mphande would not find himself in a ...

Columbia University last week agreed to nearly ... Harvard history and African American studies professor Vincent A. Brown, who signed the letter, said in an interview Wednesday he did so for ...