In 1925, a group of African American funeral directors convened to create a cemetery free of racial discrimination ...

James R. Rodgers Sr., who became the first African American airport executive director when appointed to the role in Little ...

While participating in the Library’s Archives, History, and Heritage Advanced Internship Program (AHHA), [Lucy Havens] had ...

The Evansville African American Museum hosted a historical marker dedication over the weekend at Oak Hill Cemetery.

Local tour group Hidden History DFW uncovers Dallas’ forgotten history and takes attendees to significant sites of the Dallas ...

There historically have been tension between Black Americans and African immigrants. Can we put that to the side to stand ...

Voice assistants and speech recognition tools have struggled for years to understand the way many Black people naturally ...

On June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers rode through ...

IT’S AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC APPRECIATION MONTH. FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS, WE’VE TAKEN A LOOK AT DIFFERENT AMERICAN MUSIC GENRES ...

There are a number of musical acts and performances throughout the day, with headliners DJ Drama, DJ Kid Capri, Slick Rick, ...

For Juneteenth, here's our growing database of African American burial grounds in New Jersey — and what they mean to us today ...