Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black artist Alvin Pettit's winning sculpture of Harriet Tubman (above), titled "A Higher Power: The Call of a Freedom Fighter," ...

Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar tells about a friend of his who tested elementary school children about black history at a school outside of Atlanta: “Her kids,” Abdul-Jabbar writes in Black ...

Harriet Tubman will be the first black woman to have her face featured on American currency, a recognition befitting of her important contributions to American history. According to Google, though, ...