African Americans from Kansas, not Massachusetts, were the first to serve.

Before Greensboro, there was: Chicago in 1942, St. Louis in 1944, and Wichita in 1958.

When Vincent Orr decided to buy a house, he didn't get a mortgage. He paid cash, and he's not alone. WSJ's Ben Eisen explains why Black Detroiters still have a tough time getting mortgages decades after racist redlining policies officially ended.

I grew up in the southeast corner of Indiana, right on the Ohio River, with Kentucky in one direction and Ohio in the other. It was a small town, I graduated high school in a class of about one hundred. Being as small as it was, there wasn’t much to do, so we kids had to come up with ways to amuse ourselves. One of these ways was to look at any old house on a hill and furtively whisper, “That house has a cellar that hid runaway slaves.”

50 years after his assassination, Fred Hampton is becoming what J. Edgar Hoover most feared: the recognized great leader of the Black Panthers.

After moving to Michigan, Rosa Parks helped elect John Conyers, rallied in defense of Detroit torture victims, and became Malcolm X's biggest fan.