As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African ...

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved ...

One of the earliest Memorial Day observances occurred on May 1, 1865. Organized by freed slaves and white missionaries.

While "Backlash: The Murder of George Floyd" recounts the shocking killing caught on camera, its bigger aim is to assess the ...

The Boston African-American History Museum is facing an uncertain future after federal funding cuts from the Trump ...

A controversy has been brewing at Denver's Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library after several historical ...

The Charles E. Brown African American Cultural Center is undergoing transition, and one of the changes will include dropping ...

A new study offers lawmakers a roadmap for addressing key issues affecting Black communities, including voting rights, ...

“Educators should teach Black History because it is American history. To understand history truthfully and accurately, it ...

Dr. Donna Patterson explains how social factors, not genetics, drive heart disease disparities among African Americans and ...

Rep. Shelia Stubbs will introduce her task force proposal for a third time this year. Republicans removed the idea from budget consideration.

There’s no record the new pope ever identified as Black, and he may never have researched his family’s roots in New Orleans.