A task force of community leaders in Smyrna, Georgia is seeking to have the racist monument Aunt Fanny’s Cabin permanently demolished in order to rid the area of an era we'd all rather not reminisce on.

McDonald's is set to pay $33.5 million to Herb Washington, a Black owner of multiple Mickey D's franchises, to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of systemically giving white owners more opportunity to buy restaurants in affluent neighborhoods.

An entire cemetery for Black people filled with hundreds of graves was just discovered, the fourth in recent years, buried underneath the site of what's now an office building in Clearwater, Florida.

Dec. 20 marks the 35th year since a group of racist, white teen thugs violently confronted three Black men and brutally attacked them with baseball bats and other weapons, leaving one of them -- 23-year-old Michael Griffith -- dead in the Howard Beach neighborhood of New York City's Queens borough in 1986.

Salenah Cartier recently became the youngest person to earn a master's degree from the University of Houston.

Sharon Bowen has made history as the first Black woman to be appointed to serve as the board chair of the New York Stock Exchange.

Howard U is once again in hot water, this time by its own alumni who've filed a lawsuit claiming the university's board of trustees is illegally excluding graduates, current students and even faculty.

Buck O’Neil—the MLB’s first Black coach—was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Legendary actress and activist Nichelle Nichols was honored by NASA for her transformative role in diversifying the space exploration industry.

In the face of Republican opposition, Kamala Harris, the nation's first Black and woman vice president, cast the historic tie-breaking vote in the U.S. Senate to confirm Rachael Rollins as the first-ever Black woman to be U.S. attorney for Massachusetts.