CBS Chicago highlights stories that celebrate the theme for Black History Month 2025: African Americans and labor.

Its release during Black History Month is part of CPS’s broader five-year strategic plan and aims to address long-standing ...

For example, the report unveiled that 80 percent of Chicago Public Schools do not have a librarian, while only 10 percent of majority African American schools have one. The fact-finder sided with ...

On a crisp autumn morning in 1908, an elegantly dressed African American man strode back and forth among the pin oaks, magnolias and silver maples of O’Fallon Park in St. Louis, Missouri. After ...

Did you know the man that is responsible for the creation of Black History Month once worked and lived near the New River Gorge? Carter G. Woodson was born in 1875 in ...

“We were always careful if an African ... American Airlines. “Dave was just like that. He had this calm, sharp, inquisitive soul.” “Not in the formal sense of the word, but my dad was a ...

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

Often, people don’t realize this work was done by African Americans,” says a producer of the film. And that work includes some iconic campaigns.

The leaders’ message was delivered inside the Walnut Room at Macy’s — letting kids and adults know you can’t be it unless you ...

Black History Month, an annual observance recognized each February, first emerged in the U.S. in the early 20th century, ...