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An Illinois resident has purchased land that was previously owned by Black families who forfeited their property to white developers.

As part of the performing arts center’s 2023-24 concert season, the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis will honor Shorter, the innovative saxophonist who died this month.

George Floyd’s murder is part of a through line of police violence first enabled by the "Dred Scott" ruling.

The Freedmen's Bureau, established on March 3, 1865, was to provide support to formerly enslaved persons. Did it live up to its expectations?

In 1929, white property developers forced seven Black families to leave their land in Evanston just as the Great Depression started. Steven Rogers — an Evanston resident, entrepreneur and former Northwestern professor — said learning about that displacement and subsequent loss of Black wealth broke his heart. So when he saw previous attempts to develop...

On March 2, 1867, Congress abolished the governments of the Confederate states and forced them to create new constitutions and to ratify the 14th Amendment. That act remade America.

The month of February in behind us. For many, its just the second month of the new year; for African Americans, for the nation, it is a month of discovery

Support the Black community all year long by shopping at these Black-owned businesses—and score some seriously amazing items in the process.

Historians are spreading awareness about the impact that the rebellion against Virginia’s governor in 1676 had on race-based slavery in America, and the legacy of Black people enslaved on the land

Historians are spreading awareness about the impact that the rebellion against Virginia’s governor in 1676 had on race-based slavery in America, and the legacy of Black people enslaved on the land