A fascinating new photography project takes viewers on a poignant journey through African American material culture, using objects found in the libraries, museums, and archives of the original ...

Dr. Harry Robinson Jr. retires after 50 years leading the African American Museum of Dallas, leaving a legacy of education ...

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

From movie screenings and concerts to history and discussions, here are numerous ways to celebrate Black History Month around ...

The Stanford L. Warren branch reopened after a three-year closure. Its history is anchored by a formative donation—and ...

The Madison County IL display showcases the good and bad of Black life along the famous highway, featuring the Green Book and Globetrotter Mannie Jackson.

The book became a national best seller and inspired an Oscar-winning film Sonja Anderson Harriet Bell Hayden is believed to have helped hundreds of people fleeing slavery from her Beacon Hill ...

Alan Spears, NPCA’s senior director of cultural resources, offers a winter reading list on people and places that shaped our ...

A student of Shreveport’s Providence Academy became one of the first African Americans to serve as a clerk in the Railway ...

After winning just about every major science fiction and fantasy award, Nnedi Okorafor explores a traumatic event in her own ...

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, ...

Scrawlspace spotlighted a group of artists visually reimagining and exploring language, texts and writings epitomizing the Black experience.