Roughly 35 people at Frostburg State University were among thousands more around the world who united to celebrate African ...

Kress spoke of the unique history of Louisiana. He says the state holds the largest bodies of poetry by people and Creoles of ...

Harper — the “mother of African American journalism” — died at 85. Her legacy continues to point the way forward for the ...

When J D Harris (1833–84) began studying medicine in 1863, there were few African American doctors whose paths he could follow. The first university-trained African American physician, James McCune ...

These old photographs are people whose names he doesn’t know, but they are of African American people from the 19th century.

History Month (AAHM) release from BlackEconomoics.org. It was invited by the Jackson Advocate of Jackson (MedgarEversville), Mississippi. The Jackson Advocate is an 87-year-old Black newspaper known ...

In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

inviting members of the community to the school to spend the day reading books by African American authors to the students. Among those participating were, from left, Tanya Clark, Wilnet Willis, ...

A well-respected employee was found dead in the janitor’s closet at the Caddo Parish Schools board office.

But, of course, it’s far from exhaustive. William B. Abrams was an African American inventor best known for his contribution to agricultural technology through the development of the Hame ...

We passed down these methods through generations and these traditions formed the foundation of African American cuisine. When enslaved Africans arrived in the United States, they were stripped of ...