Black Spectrum Theatre in St. Albans will highlight the life and times of a pioneering Black journalist next week at its ...

Editor’s note: For Black History Month, The Root is speaking to the relatives of our most cherished African-American heroes in a series called Living With History. To open the series, we interviewed a ...

HARTMAN WILL HAVE YOUR FULL FORECAST IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. THIS YEAR MARKS 100 YEARS OF CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH. THAT’S RIGHT. A TRADITION THAT BEGAN AS JUST A WEEK IN 1926. IT GREW INTO AN ...

More than a century ago, Ida B. Wells decided to print what she knew. The famed African American journalist investigated lynchings across the South and wrote about the savage incidents that the white ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — A week of celebrating the life and legacy of journalist and civil rights pioneer Ida B. Wells will culminate Friday in downtown Memphis. The Ida B. Wells statue and plaza will ...

HAMPTON, Va. — Dozens gathered at Buckroe Beach on Saturday morning for the second annual Ida B. Wells “Hands Off Our Vote” Walk, an event honoring women’s equality and the ongoing fight for voting ...

Education Secretary Linda McMahon lauded civil rights activist and journalist Ida B. Wells on Truth Social on Friday, part of a series of posts praising celebrated women in American history. But the ...