Longtime Ebony and Jet editor Lerone Bennett Jr. has died. He was 89. Bennett moved to Chicago from Atlanta to become "Jet" magazine's editor in 1951, about a year after it was founded. He moved on to ...

Historian Lerone Bennett Jr. wished liberals “a fond farewell” in 1964. In that same year, writer James Baldwin called white liberals an “affliction.” ...

They join Native American, Hispanic, and Black historians like the late Lerone Bennett Jr. in challenging the good old boy and girls’ Historical establishment.

He recalled that his first encounter with Black history was reading “Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America,” by Lerone Bennett Jr. in the ninth grade. “It was transformative.

Lincoln’s rationale was the subtitle of Lerone Bennett, Jr.’s book Forced into Glory: “Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream.” (Bennett was the long time editor of Ebony magazine and an author of several ...

Lerone Bennett, the American academic who wrote many influential books on black history including "Before the Mayflower". Penny Vincenzi the best selling novelist who told stories of glamorous ...

HICKORY — Hickory Museum of Art’s newest exhibition, “Charles White: A Little Higher” will examine the ongoing relevance of Charles White’s (1918–1979) artistic achievement today.

Lerone Bennett Jr. is pictured as editor-in-chief of Ebony magazine on April 5, 1972.

Lerone Bennett, the celebrated historian, said, “If African-American youth are to make history, they must know their history.” The history of African Americans in golf has not been told.

Back in 2008, I wrote a column that included the following guidance from journalist-historian-author-master teacher Lerone Bennett, Jr.: “Given the way we are forced to live in this society, the ...

Back in 2008, I wrote a column that included the following guidance from journalist-historian-author-master teacher Lerone Bennett Jr.: “Given the way we are forced to live in this society, the ...