In response to public discourse Unified will explore offering AP African American Studies as a districtwide option to fulfill ...

Vernis Jackson, who died at 92, is remembered for contributions to local Black history efforts and as a teacher in Portsmouth ...

The Grand Rapids Public Schools have renamed a school in honor of the district's first African-American teacher.

The Grand Rapids Public Schools District is renaming its Academy of Teaching, Learning and Social Justice after the ...

This Black History Month, district leaders are renaming a Grand Rapids Public School in honor of a historic figure.

During Black History Month, News4JAX is celebrating local African American trailblazers who paved the way in politics and ...

J.R. Clifford was many things, an activist, an educator, a journalist, a veteran and the first African-American lawyer in the ...

Jacqueline Hunter has been museum educator at the African American Museum of Iowa since August. She will begin her new role ...

a social justice activist who became a teacher at the nation's first African American public high school - now known as Dunbar High School. Terrell was born in 1863 to former slaves in Tennessee ...

February is Black History Month, and 7News is speaking to experts about some noteworthy and historic African Americans figures that impacted the D.C.-area.Mary ...