Washington Black is about an 11-year-old boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation around 200 years ago, but one of its stars ...

In HBO’s new series “The Gilded Age,” a frequently glossed-over aspect of Black history is put in the spotlight.Textbooks documenting this time in history would have you believe that the era ...

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

The Worcester Art Museum has many outstanding 19th century paintings in its collection, including works by such esteemed artists as Winslow Homer, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, James McNeill ...

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers, thoughtfully edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Hollis Robbins, is a rewarding read that reminds us the past isn't a single story.

By the late 19th century, ... Rollin shows the long history of African American women’s political activism outside the Northeast and beyond women’s rights conferences and organizations.

Reed recalls his experience of prison life in the 19th century in a singular, clear voice. His was not a typical story of a black man living in pre-Civil War America.

African-American writers since the 19th century have advocated a distinctively black literature and aesthetic, and in the 20th century countless American groups followed suit, attempting the Asian ...

Worcester Art Museum's recent acquisition of paintings by Edward Mitchell Bannister and Charles Ethan Porter helps bridge an important gap in history. Filling a gap in history: WAM acquires works ...