Smith has been working toward this moment since 1992, when, as a DC Council member, he secured congressional permission to ...

Civil rights leaders launched a #HandsOffOurHistory campaign to rally to protect Black history from Trump's executive orders.

Groups rallied pushing back against what they call the Trump administration's campaign to erase Black history.

After the Civil ... war, of a free, black settlement, named for the hated Union, made a dramatic claim to equality and liberty. The passionate man labeled as the “most influential African ...

But the president decided to start what may become a new tradition by sending a wreath to the African-American Civil War Memorial at Vermont Avenue and U Street Northwest in Washington.

WASHINGTON ‒ A coalition of civil rights leaders kicked off a weeklong campaign to rally around the national African American museum and push back against what it calls efforts by the Trump ...