4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Bishara Bahbah, national chairman for Arab Americans for Trump, answers questions during an interview, Aug. 14, 2024, in Dearborn, Mich. (AP Photo/Jose ...

At this time, African-Americans had few rights, so Henry wanted to make sure that a few, at least, received some form of unofficial recognition for their contributions to society. This list is ...

The theme for Black History Month 2025 is African Americans and Labor. President Gerald Ford officially recognized Black History Month in 1976 when he called for the public to “seize the ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says El Salvador’s president has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now imprisoned in the ...

Tom Boggioni is a writer, born, raised and living in San Diego — where he attended San Diego State University. Prior to writing for Raw Story, he wrote for FireDogLake, blogged as TBogg, and ...

In the 1920s, a great mass of white Americans began doing a West African (Ashanti) dance they called “The Charleston.” The Savoy’s regular “Battle of the Bands” welcomed clarinetist ...

The theme was developed by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Black History Month has been around since 1926, and except for the first two years, each year features a ...

Six Americans who had been detained in Venezuela are heading home to the US, President Donald Trump announced Friday, after his envoy met with the country’s President Nicolás Maduro. The ...

Smithfield CEO Shane Smith took the country’s largest pork producer public in the U.S. this week. Now he faces the big challenge of getting us all to eat more. Patrick Thomas ...

Carter G. Woodson African American Museum flag in front of St. Petersburg City Hall, Feb. 1, 2021, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Martha Asencio Rhine/Tampa Bay Times via AP) This undated photo provided by ...

Kennedy Jr. on his history of claiming Black Americans have a better immune system than white people. Alsobrooks, one of only two Black women serving in the Senate, questioned Kennedy on what he ...