On the anniversary of America’s independence, the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass made a biblical Psalm – Psalm 137 – best known for its opening line, “By the Rivers of Babylon,” a centerpiece ...

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

If a government wants to force a collective narrative upon the masses, arts, culture and media entities are necessary.

Dr. Wylin Wilson -- who studies the Black church and bioethics -- grew up in the “black belt,” a region now largely known for its struggling economy.

The most popular African American-helmed comedies of the 1980s and 1990s made millions of people laugh, but San Francisco ...

Phylicia Rashad has joined the cast as an aristocratic matriarch. In an interview, she, Audra McDonald and Denée Benton ...

AFRICAN AMERICANS. Cleveland's African American community is almost as old as the city itself. GEORGE PEAKE, the first Black settler, arrived in 1809 and by 1860 there were 799 Black people living in ...

Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners Last updated: July 7, 2025 by Regan McMahon Each winter (in January or February), the Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given to outstanding African American ...

The former Librarian of Congress abruptly fired by President Donald Trump has found a new position with the country's largest ...

The scene that I found often completely captivated, convinced and captured many of my students was in Chapter 15 ...

Wendel A. White / Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA in honor of Dr. James Farmer In ...

A new weeklong summer learning program called Freedom School at the African American Museum of Iowa aims to immerse middle ...