Black History

What a school assignment taught me about ancestry, slavery, and the need for hard truths in history classes

There are 10 Black lawmakers serving in the Nevada State Legislature – that’s a larger share than African Americans in the statewide population.That…

The roots of the Las Vegas Westside — the historically black neighborhood near downtown — predate the city’s 1905 founding.A year earlier surveyor J.T.…

When Clinton Wright moved to Las Vegas in 1959, he found a community as segregated as any he encountered growing up in the South.Unable to make use of his…

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada's two major universities are mourning the loss of the first black woman to earn a college degree in the state at a time when most…

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military aviators in the United States Armed Forces and are revered today as heroes and pioneers for…

Fourteen summers ago I happened upon a festive gathering in a strip mall parking lot on H Street and Owens Avenue. My first experience with Juneteenth happened to be the city’s first large-scale commemoration of June 19, 1865, the day slaves in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom.