Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Black people, being told to ride in the back of the bus is a reminder of an era when they couldn’t sit at the front because of ...

Eritrea’s Biniam Girmay wrote his name in the Tour de France history books Monday, becoming the first Black rider to win a stage in cycling’s most prestigious competition. Girmay, who hadn’t placed ...

Bessie Stringfield was the first Black woman to ride a motorcycle solo across the United States. She made eight cross-country trips during the Jim Crow era, often facing racism and prejudice.

Bill “Hard Luck” Jones sat near the track at the Atlanta Motordrome, reading his Bible, one Sunday morning in late October 1913. Jones, one of the best Black motorcycle racers in the South, was ...