Edward “Ed” Boykin was Pittsburgh’s reigning king of ribs. Boykin’s Bar-B-Q restaurants are a chapter in our local culinary history.

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Iowa State University recognized George Washington Carver Day on Monday, holding a recognition program in the Memorial ...

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In the 1930s, in segregated Sutherland town south of Richmond, Virginia, USA, there were two occupational options for black women. They could either work for penurious pay on local sharecropping ...

Slavery was gone, but it was replaced by tenant farming and sharecropping. Infrastructure was a long way from being restored. People were walking into new ways of life, new ways of making a living, ...

Black History Month is starts this weekend, and as an avid reader, I'm thinking about books by Black authors that I'd love to ...

Saturday, Feb. 1 is George Washington Carver Day in Iowa , a well-deserved honor for the recipient of the Spingarn Medal, Roosevelt Medal, fellow of the Royal Society in London, and posthumous ...

Happy as Lazzaro is a Marxist allegory that lays bare mechanisms of exploitation, highlighting the dehumanising effects of capitalism through its innocent protagonist. The EPW produces independent and ...

On Saturday, President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including a posthumous award to Mississippi Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer who died in 1977.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about ways to advance equity and opportunity for all. I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded and damaging these attacks on ...