The fact that the meeting was even happening was enough to produce an air of subversive excitement. On August 25, 1925, a ...

A new documentary hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. revisits the longstanding relationship between Black and Jewish Americans.

The Memphis Police Department took to social media to honor the life of Captain Claudine Penn, the first Black woman in the ...

The African American Museum in Fair Park is presenting a retrospective of the self-taught Louisiana artist Clementine ...

The second marker on Macon County's African American Heritage Trail was unveiled Thursday and is located behind Parsons Elementary School.

The performance is composed of two one-act operas, each running less than 60 minutes, and includes multiple returning ...

The latest book from Anne E. Marshall, a professor of history at Mississippi State University, examines the life of Cassius ...

"The romanticized version of [the Lone Ranger] is a white man behind the mask," Bun B said. "But the actual Lone Ranger was a ...

Jesup’s proclamation was one of the earliest instances in American history in which emancipation was wielded as a military tool. It marked the first federal recognition that Black freedom could serve ...

Jackie Bolware regularly attends the annual Mass in Celebration of Black Catholic History Month. She said that every year ...

Ahead of her appearance in Sarasota, Jennifer Jones told "Florida Matters Live & Local" how she crossed the color barrier and made history as the first African American member of the Rockettes dance ...