Dr. Bernard Harris became the first Black man to do a space walk. His family watched nervously seeing him take off into space ...

Rosalyn Sia Baker-Barnes was sworn in as the 77th president of The Florida Bar, becoming the first African American woman to ...

Montgomery Hall Park in Staunton is now one of the locations where local history enthusiasts can find these markers.

The First Coast has more “Firsts” in relation to African-American history than perhaps any other region of the American South. Unfortunately, the publicity machines, and on occasion faux facts ...

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

John L. Colbert, served as Fayetteville Public Schools for almost fifty years, working in various education roles, until becoming the first African American superintendent for the district.

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

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

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

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