DECATUR — When Evelyn Hood started organizing the African American Cultural and Genealogical Society 31 years ago, her only ...

Famous names and famous firsts make it into the history books. The ones who lead the marches and make the speeches to the faceless crowds. But it’s the faces in the crowd who make history. If you ask ...

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward In the summer of 1987, Diamond Newberry is the only Black person in the small town of Swift River since her father vanished seven years ago. Her mother wants to ...

The son of dictator Ferdinand Marcos wants to bury the history of the movement that toppled his father, but Filipinos are uplifting it.

New books discuss the enslavement of others and its legacy of continuing generational damage, challenging what it means to be ...

Robert Jones on the Rev. Claude Shelby ... Asia Fuller and Dionne Webster on Barbara Gillespie ... Tracy Parsons on Clarence ...

Indiana University Bloomington hasn’t made much progress on Black student enrollment in almost 50 years, according to a WFIU/WTIU News analysis. Fall enrollment headcounts from 1975 to 2024 show Black ...

Latecomers are seated at the discretion of management. The Book of Mormon follows two young missionaries who are sent to Uganda to try to convert citizens to the Mormon religion. One missionary ...