Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library shares writings about local African Americans as ...

With Trump officials pushing to end diversity efforts, civil rights leaders and experts explain why Black organizations were ...

On June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers rode through ...

Cleveland's African American community is almost as old as the city itself. GEORGE PEAKE, the first Black settler, arrived in 1809 and by 1860 there were 799 Black people living in a growing community ...

The marker will recognize a 19th-century African American cemetery that was intentionally covered up in the early 20th ...