Philadelphia sued the Trump administration after it directed the Park Service to rip out a memorial to slavery. Elsewhere, ...

A New York Times bestseller, “The ABCs of Black History,” is a rhyming book that attaches a concept, person, place and more ...

For nearly 200 years, HBCUs have educated Black Americans. Now, a new exhibition highlights special objects from five ...

Even during his lifetime, Washington faced criticism for holding slaves. In 1775, British essayist Samuel Johnson criticized ...

I turned to W.E.B. Du Bois’ thoughts on the centrality of America’s color line when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Officer Jonathan Ross ...

African American history can be forgotten, overlooked and even scrubbed, but in Rochester, a project to reclaim what is lost ...

The Society Hill church, founded in 1791, is recognized as the nation's first African Methodist Episcopal Church and sits on ...

The celebrations in Norfolk started with a milestone for the Attucks Theatre, as an historical marker for the building was ...

An archivist specializing in African American historical documents told a Lawrence crowd on Martin Luther King Jr. Day that ...

It’s a history for the future, not just for the past,” said Charles Edward Johnson, 76, who helped spearhead the renovation ...

This exhibition honors the legacy of HBCUs as cultural and educational powerhouses,” said Shanita Brackett, acting director ...

Despite its official government recognition in 1975, scholars say Black History Month started decades earlier with the work ...