County officials in Springfield, Illinois, have agreed to pay $10 million to the family of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black ...

Melik Abdul, a GOP strategist and member of the Black Americans for Trump Coalition, said that he's been "fielding a lot of calls" after President Donald Trump (without evidence) blamed DEI policies ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The Oklahoma City Zoo has welcomed a rescued bobcat to its newly renovated Cat Forest habitat. According to the Zoo, Pando, a 7-month-old female bobcat, arrived from ...

An armadillo in southern Illinois and the quickest sturgeon season on Black Lake in northern Michigan are among the notes ...

Illinois struck down laws that kept free Black people from entering the state in 1865, a year after the Illinois Colored ...

The Black Chamber of Commerce of Southern Illinois's 4th annual Black Business Expo is this Saturday, Feb. 8, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The expo includes 60 local vendors, ...

Illinois launches a Black History Month campaign focused on celebrating and supporting Black-owned businesses.

Jackie White, a native of Centralia, Illinois, in 1968 became the first Black person to officiate an NBA game.

A proposed state bill could make Freeburg High School change its controversial mascot, the "Midgets," a term many people with ...