Dr. Henry Louis Gates brings our hidden history to life like we’ve never seen in Great Migrations: A People On The Move, a ...

In February, you can celebrate Black History Month with a variety of WTTW programming that explores the political, artistic, ...

In Chicago, you have a lot of folks from Alabama ... He's talking about the Great Migration, and he says, "I think it was a mistake. I think the Great Migration was a mistake, that Black people ...

Your TV GPS, a look at the week ahead in television, appears every Monday morning on BostonGlobe.com. Today’s column covers ...

A sense of despair has engulfed the migrant camp of La Soledad, named after the colonial-era church that towers over the shantytown in downtown Mexico City.

Listen to the news, and it sounds like the only part of Chicago is the South Side. In reality, all four sides of Chicago (and ...

William Nesbit, an African American man who moved to Blair County in the mid-1800s was instrumental in helping others secure ...

In his new book, Afro Sheen, the legendary founder of the Johnson Products Company chronicles his creation of a business empire that spanned the Jim Crow era, the Civil Rights movement and the rise of ...

These two disparate trends show the push and pull of a coming global land reshuffle. As the world’s population grows, the planet warms and resources dwindle, land is poised to change hands and uses at ...

Chicago’s Very Own WGN-TV will present special features celebrating Black History Month on WGN News, People to People, and WGN News Special: Honoring Black ...

The Midwest Newsroom and its partners asked police departments and sheriff offices in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska to ...