Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo: Getty Images) From the first Black president to the first African-American woman ever elected to the United States ...

Rod Paige, an educator, coach and administrator who rolled out the nation's landmark No Child Left Behind law as the first African American to serve as U.S. education secretary, died Tuesday. Former ...

Historically, Black political power has not come easily in the United States. The institution of slavery and systems of racial inequality – from Black Codes to Jim Crow – restricted the civil and ...