WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has nominated Neil Jacobs to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, turning to the man who was his acting NOAA chief in 2019 when Trump altered ...

Illinois struck down laws that kept free Black people from entering the state in 1865, a year after the Illinois Colored Convention of 1853, where men and women from across the country worked to ...

Investigators confirmed they have recovered a cockpit voice recorder and a flight-data recorder from American Eagle Flight ...

A Civil War map in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland reads, “S. E. Missouri, Country Around Ironton” on its ...

In a unanimous decision, the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors ... "A flurry of racist emails saying why should Black folk get this when white folk don't get this and turned it into this ...

Also known as University Village because of its proximity to the University of Illinois at Chicago campus ... Bronzeville became a refuge for Black Americans looking to escape persecution in ...

Legislation now on Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk aims at providing protections for workers at large warehouses such as those run by Amazon by requiring employers to be more transparent about productivity ...

The history of Westchester County ... for Black people across the country. Thirty-six residents fought in the Civil War to preserve the Union and end slavery. A remarkable exhibit on the website of ...

An American Airlines plane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter outside ...

A Black jail inmate who was slammed into bunkbeds, thrown facedown and then dragged backward across the concrete floor by a ...

Residents anxious to see what had become of their properties after the Palisades Fire ignited on Jan. 7 waited in their cars ...