Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 27—SOUTH BEND — Starting on Nov. 9, the campus of The History Museum will be interpreted as the home of a 1950s African ...

You can’t study the history of popular music without familiarizing yourself with the best Black singers from the 50s. In fact, you might be surprised just how many music genres can trace their roots ...

The 1950s marked a pivotal era for Black actresses in Hollywood, as the entertainment industry began to adapt to changing social narratives and demands for more authentic representation. While ...

As all history should be told and, in this case, with particular deference to Black History Month, here's an unvarnished timeline of what it was like for the Black Packers who served as trailblazers ...

In new research, Harris Interim Dean and Prof. Kerwin Charles finds that the median African-American male holds the same position relative to the median white male as his grandfather did. But why? The ...

Race relations at the University have transformed significantly from a time when admitted students were turned away because of their race to a time when multiple diversity initiatives and ad hoc ...

What a revelation it was to find out that women’s wrestling has its origins in Columbus, Ohio. Two former wrestlers-turned-promoters, Billy Wolfe and Al Haft set up shop Central Ohio in the 1950’s to ...

SOUTH BEND — In a tiny alcove, just off of the dining room, a half-repaired 1946 RCA Kit TV sits where the man of the house spent his time repairing televisions — one of two side gigs to his job at ...

Lori Durante loves hearing her dad's stories from the 1950s and 1960s. Her father, Kenneth, said in those days finding a job in North Carolina was hard, until someone said he should be a waiter in ...

(CNN) — At least 24 Black deaf students who attended a segregated school on the grounds of Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, in the early 1950s never received their high school diplomas. Seventy ...