There’s a Southern twang in the Black Chicago accent, even though many Black Chicagoans are generations removed from the ...

In a new poetry collection, Joshua Bennett traces Black American history through cities across the country, including Chicago ...

A powerful new photography exhibit is giving Chicagoans a chance to see Black life in the city through a fuller lens.

Bloomberg reports that U.S. Rep. Danny Davis is singing the blues — literally — about watching “black Chicago slip away” as Hispanics gain political power and economic clout in the city. The ...

As the year moves us closer to the months that we pay homage on Mother's and Father's Day to those who birthed us, nostalgic memories inevitably arise.

Black History Month is being celebrated for is 100th year, and it originated right here in Chicago. In fact, it started at what used to be the Bronzeville YMCA at 37th and Wabash. But how did that ...

Without Black women, it's very unlikely Black History Month would be what it is today. Terrell believed Black history was essential to racial equality, and after Frederick Douglass died in 1895 she ...