Here are 10 nonfiction books, all published in the past five years, that can help you expand your understanding of African American history and culture Skip to content PEOPLE ...

February is Black History Month, and if you’re looking for a way to educate yourself and expand your knowledge about the accomplishments and contributions of Black people in American history, as ...

Favorite books "From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans" by John Hope Franklin. Ham's heart turned to history as a sophomore when a Howard professor challenged her to read this ...

Books have long been a cornerstone of cultural preservation and empowerment; this is especially true within the African-American community, where books created for us and by us have a history of ...

If you want an opportunity to learn more about African-American culture, the African-American read-in is a chance to do that. It's a gathering to read and discuss books centered on Black authors ...

The African American Museum’s library is filled with decades of Black history from rare books like The Negro In Our History to The Souls of Black Folk. This summer, the library is the classroom for ...

"It's a book that I would recommend for anyone, and particularly though, in Black History Month because it features a young African American girl and she takes so many adventures through books ...

History has long been one of the strongest subject areas for the National Geographic Kids book publishing program. Recently, we have been garnering high praise for our titles on African-American ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will publish a dynamic new book Sept. 17 tracing the history of sports through photographs from the turn of the 20th ...

A group of freed African American men along a wharf during the Civil War. Bettman / Getty Images. In August of 1619, the English warship White Lion sailed into Hampton Roads, Virginia, where the ...

Target swiftly yanked a children’s book from its Black History Month display after a customer noticed that it mislabeled Black icons like Booker T. Washington, Carter Woodson and W.E.B. Du Bo… ...

Among the discussion books some say are explicit and still on school shelves, as well as African-American history standards about slavery. One by one people read nearly 40 titles and quotes they ...