Curio Theatre Company will be visited by an American Icon this February. For one night only, the company is ...

Nov. 5 marked the historic 56th anniversary of the first African-American woman being elected to the U.S. Congress, Rep.

Across New York, exhibitions highlighting the work of activists, from the mostly unknown to the iconic, offer hope, ...

On Jan. 25, 1972, at the Concord Baptist Church of Christ in Brooklyn, New York, Shirley Chisholm announced her candidacy for president of the United States, becoming the first African American to ...

On this special edition of Here and Now, we revisit some of the guest authors from our archives. "Race Rules: What Your Black Friend Won't Tell You" is an eye-opening manual for white people on racist ...

Deadline.com reported Tuesday that Ridley, who won an Academy Award for his screenplay for 2013's "12 Years a Slave," is ...

Juanita Tolliver: 6 p.m., Baldwin & Co., 1030 Elysian Fields Ave. The author discusses and signs "A More Perfect Party: The ...

When former First Lady Michelle Obama opted not to attend Donald Trump’s second inauguration, it symbolized more than just a ...

Barbara Lee has officially thrown her hat into the ring for the Oakland mayoral seat in the upcoming special election set for April 15, 2025.

Tolliver's book A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics unpacks how a groundbreaking fundraiser by Chisholm and Carroll in 1972 brought together ...

With Butler, Lee teamed up to pass one of the final bills of the 118th Congress, awarding the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to her mentor and friend Shirley Chisholm, another trailblazer ...