A few days ago, at Riverside Park in New York City, I.C.E. agents began questioning Little League players about where they ...

HOLLAND, JUSTIN (1819-24 Mar. 1887), black musician and composer best known for his works on the guitar, and also active in the antislavery movement and a leader in black Masonic fraternities, was ...

It served as home to four Scottish Rites bodies, as well as Masonic, Eastern Star, DeMolay and International Rainbow chapters, Blue Lodges, York Rite groups.

JULY 3 1775—Prince Hall founds African Lodge Number One—the first Black lodge of Free Masons in the United States. Hall would become the pioneer builder of Black Masons in America.

Earning the prestigious title of chief resident of orthopaedic surgery, a field that sees few Black women, Dr. Bonnie Simpson Mason would finally reap the benefits of the grueling 100-plus weekly ...

This Week In Black History July 2-8, 2025LT. CHARLES HALL JULY 2 1777—Vermont becomes first U.S. territory to abolish slavery. By 1783, New Hampshire and Massachusetts had followed Vermont’s lead. The ...