Nat King Cole performs in Copenhagen, Denmark, in April 1960. Ebbe Wrae/JP Jazz Archive/Getty Images
by Donna M. Cox, University of Dayton
Six decades after Nat...
Civil rights marchers protest housing discrimination in Chicago on Aug. 2, 1966. AP Photo
by Colin Gordon, University of Iowa
Donald Trump has picked former football...
By Erick Johnson of The Chicago Crusader
Publishers and owners of Chicago’s Black media organizations have banded together, urging Mayor Brandon Johnson to keep his...
As he prepared to accept the GIBFF Lifetime Achievement Award last weekend, legendary action star Fred Williamson opened up in an exclusive interview with...
Steelworkers line up for their paychecks at U.S. Steel’s South Works in Chicago in 1959. Bettman Collection via Getty Images
by Amanda McMillan Lequieu, Drexel...
President Biden delivers the final speech during Day 1 of the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
CHICAGO – Since Vice President Kamala Harris declared, "We did...
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by Erick Johnson, Chicago Crusader
There are just six months left before the global spotlight is on Chicago as it hosts the Democratic National...
by Joshua F.J. Inwood, Penn State and Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee
When historian Carter Woodson created “Negro History Week” in 1926, which became...
