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

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

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

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

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 ...

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family line, and he takes readers along on the journey.

New books discuss the enslavement of others and its legacy of continuing generational damage, challenging what it means to be ...

ALBANY — Rosanna Vosburgh is a powerful portrait of upward mobility in Albany. She was an African American female born in ...

The conference offers a forum for research and discussion of issues affecting the African American community ... of Tennessee will honor the 19th-century author, statesman and activist Frederick ...

Museum attendees can take a self-guided tour to explore artifacts and exhibit elements significant to African American history ... The Black Experience in 19th Century Cincinnati, 6 p.m., Erlanger ...

Enslaved griots were the originators of the tales of Bre’r Rabbit, sharing adapted West African fables after long days working. "This is Black history," says one historian.