When Old World Wisconsin, a Wisconsin Historical Society site, celebrates its 50th anniversary on July 4, 2026, it will also ...

Wisconsin history is full of remarkable achievements by African Americans. Here are just a few in commemoration of Black History Month’s 50th anniversary.

A year of protests against school segregation wasn’t enough to sway Milwaukee Public Schools to integrate. So in 1965, Milwaukee attorney and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ...

Jesse Jackson, a trailblazer in the fight for social justice and civil rights, died Tuesday at the age of 84, leaving behind ...

Most of Milwaukee County's racially restrictive housing covenants were put in place in the 1920s, a time when few Black people lived there. By the 1930s, there were three times as many racial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Documents collected and analyzed by UW-Milwaukee geography Professor Anne Bonds show examples of racial covenants in Milwaukee, ...

MILWAUKEE (WDJT) -- A church in northwest Milwaukee is honoring black history in America with a new museum.