The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they ...

Ed Whitfield ’70, leader of the Cornell Afro-American Society — which is now Cornell Black Students United — helped organize the 36-hour occupation of Willard Straight Hall to protest racial ...

Henry Louis Gates, JR., Author, Cornel West, Author ... In eight brief but powerful essays, West, director of Afro-American Studies at Princeton, delivers innovative analyses of our nation's ...