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

Based on Esi Edugyan's prizewinning novel, this 19th century-set Hulu miniseries centers on George Washington Black, a young ...

When Congress passed legislation in 1887 that allotted individual American Indians pieces of land while also granting them ...

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

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

Authors, activists and historians attended the event on Saturday at the George Washington Carver Library and Museum.

My hope this Juneteenth is that we never forget it. Fifty of the 100 Amazing Facts will be published on The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross website. Read all 100 Facts on The Root.

It is open to the public and anchored by five 19th-century Urhobo wood carvings of warriors and royalty, one of which belongs to Lindemann’s private collection.

As with many other settlement schemes of the 19th century, this one ended in failure and Harris was back in Cleveland by the fall of 1862.

Early and 19th Century American literary studies explores the American experience through history, visual studies, philosophy, textual studies and race and gender theory.

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 ...

Newport’s African heritage history dates back to the 17th century. During the 19th century there are four vibrant African heritage churches within the Bellevue Avenue, Historic Hill and West Broadway ...