In his book Rising From the Rails, Larry Tye told the story of the Pullman train porters who helped open up the middle class to Black Americans and transported jazz and blues musicians to gigs across ...

At a time when Jim Crow laws made racial segregation legal across much of the United States, author Richard Wright gave voice ...

Nadia Cattouse, who has died aged 99, was among the first group of Caribbean women volunteers to sign up for British ...

In the Jim Crow South, activists became martyrs at the hands of white racists, all for the just cause of using the vote to ...

“I’m not a fraidy-cat; I’m not generally nervous of wildlife,” said Joyce, whose crow encounters ... afraid it would shatter.

For Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong, even their fame couldn’t fully protect them from the terrifying violence ...

He loaned his car to friends old enough to drive who took ... making the point that he belongs. “The Jim Crow years were my formative years,” Wilkinson said. “Just watching and seeing ...

Arriving in the back-half of "Lemonade," "Freedom" samples two John and Alan Lomax field recordings, which document Jim Crow-era folk spirituals of Southern Black churches and the work songs of ...

A new laboratory at Addenbrooke's Hospital will deliver 'home-grown' CAR-T cells to help treat blood cancers. The laboratory will be one of only a handful of sites across the UK able to manufacture ...

It may be remarkable to others, especially younger generations, to realize a single person has lived long enough to see the end of Jim Crow laws, the signing of the Civil Rights Act into law ...