Josephine “Jo” Brown, the first African American woman elected to the Wichita school board and a longtime civil rights and ...

William L. Clay Sr., a longtime advocate for civil rights and workers’ rights and Missouri’s first Black congressman, died Wednesday at his daughter’s home in Maryland. He was 94. The St. Louis native ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Harold Johnson’s loved ones say he was a humorous, straightforward and supportive man. This thoughtful personality aided him both as a family man and a pioneer of gerontology and ...

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has elected its first African American presiding bishop to succeed the denomination's first female head. The Rev. Yehiel Curry, bishop of the Metropolitan ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Voters in Guinea will head to the polls on Sunday for the West African nation's first presidential election since the military took power in a 2021 coup, with analysts predicting ...