On a sidewalk near the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, I met Jaqueline Smith, a long-term resident of the motel until she was forcibly evicted in 1988. For 36 years, ...

Discover forgotten Black history in the American West with the #CowboyCarterChronicles! From Juneteenth to sundown towns, explore new pathways to freedom inspired by Beyoncé.

The group went to the departmental archives in Périgueux, where they found only one record which contained Yvette’s surname — ...

There’s a sense of pride for many Americans in our identity as a melting pot. But until the early part of the 20th Century, ...

From the late 1800s through the 1970s, Central Avenue in Tampa was bustling with Black culture and eventually became known as ...

Actress and art collector CCH Pounder is sharing more than 40 pieces of her collection in an exhibit at the African American ...

This year, the Institution’s museums are bringing to the public everything from the flair of state fairs to the artwork of ...

David Herskovits' new version of 'Show Boat' takes on Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's problematic Broadway classic.

Even before 1960, when seventeen countries in Africa gained independence in a single year, American diplomats had identified ...

A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ...

Tsedaye Makonnen’s ethereal pillars at the African Art Museum pay tribute to victims of violence and the perils of migration.

RaMell Ross, A.V. Rockwell, Raven Jackson and Garrett Bradley are the new Black directors chronicling Black life at a ...