Obama generated controversy recently when she criticized an author for portraying her as an "angry black woman," but the history of black women in America is replete with figures who had the right to be angry, including former slave and abolitionist...

Lewis Latimer, an inventor and draftsman, had a role in the invention of the telephone and also worked with Thomas Edison. Col. Charles Young was the first African-American to attain the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Army. Madam C.J. Walker was the...

Here on these sacred black winged things, I will zoom and linger for the duration.

See a play for $6 Spend your lunch hour at Lunch Time Theater. Grey Matters Productions presents “Frederick & Ida,” a play about Frederick Douglass and his friendship with journalist-activist Ida B. Wells. Bring your lunch or order one online for...

Michael Fields, news director at WABE-FM in Atlanta, received the Ida B. Wells Award, "given to a media executive or manager who has made outstanding efforts to make newsrooms and news coverage more accurately reflect the diversity of the communities...

(L to R): Journalists and NABJ Hall of Fame inductees Pat Harvey, Johnathan Rodgers, Gwen Ifill, Ida B. Wells Award recipient Michael Fields, Hall of Fame inductee Ruth Allen Ollison and Jack White, who represented Wallace Terry who was posthumously...