September marks a season of transition. As students return to school and families settle into new routines, our city enters a ...

Alderman Lamont Westmoreland is encouraging residents in need of flood recovery and other community-based resources to attend ...

Alderman Peter Burgelis is demanding accountability after a $460,000 wire fraud incident involving the City of Milwaukee ...

In 2021, the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) launched a global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities, and implications of the transatlantic slave trade. Today, ...

Both are former slave labor camps, known euphemistically as plantations – the Whitney Plantation in Edgard, Louisiana, and McLeod Plantation Historic Site in Charleston, South Carolina. “As far as I ...

The connection that African Americans have had to the African Diaspora goes back to the ‘Back to Africa’ movement of the early 19 th century, like the American Colonization Society, that was created ...

Kunta Kinte: What’s snow, Fiddler? Fiddler: Never you mind, boy, never you mind. Let’s get on back to home. I got enough trouble teaching you the difference between manure and massa. ‘Course there ain ...

What’s more, in 1976, author Alex Haley released his family’s autobiography, “Roots.” ...

What’s more, in 1976, author Alex Haley released his family’s autobiography, “Roots.” ...

What’s more, in 1976, author Alex Haley released his family’s autobiography, “Roots.” ...

Jackson’s research focuses on slavery, abolitionists, violence as a political discourse, historical film, and black women’s history. That “Roots” spawned an era where African Americans would give ...

Kunta Kinte: What’s snow, Fiddler? Fiddler: Never you mind, boy, never you mind. Let’s get on back to home. I got enough trouble teaching you the difference between manure and massa. ‘Course there ain ...