In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

The IWA created a book called "Freedom is Beautiful." It's a book that depicts African American Iowans who migrated to the state during the Civil War era. With help from the University of Iowa ...

Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

The Irish ambassador in London personally approved a book launch for ex-housing minister Eoghan Murphy, saying it would help demonstrate “the challenges faced by political officeholders” in ...

Bloomfield historian John Mills founded the Alex Breanne Corporation to unearth and honor Black history. His work got him on "The Kelly Clarkson Show." ...

"Nine Irish Lives," edited by Mark Bailey, is the February 2025 selection for the IrishCentral Book Club ... the story of a particularly brave Civil War soldier, and filmmaker and activist ...

Civil servants at the National Shared Services Office are the latest to be asked to reduce the number of days they work remotely, according to a union. A Fórsa spokesperson said the National ...

Researchers looking for the remains of Patrick Sarsfield, one of the great tragic figures of Irish history ... 1693 during the Nine Years War. He died some days later of his wounds.

On Jan. 30, 1972, 13 unarmed civil rights demonstrators were shot dead in Londonderry, Northern Ireland by British Army paratroopers, which eventually became known as “Bloody Sunday.”Aft ...

Scholar and author Imani Perry explains — it's the color blue. In her new book, Black in Blues ... King wore blue on her wedding day, and that civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer wore ...