Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar ...

The words of these famous Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America Black poets you need to know There are so many types of poetry in the world, ...

HBO's Gilded Age transforms period drama by exploring Black aristocracy in 1880s America through complex characters and ...

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.

Just as the great 19th-century black educator sought the advancement of his race through education, “industry, thrift and intelligence,” Washington had a disciple in Waco who promoted the same ...

One user on X pointed out that Trump must not know about the history Liberia has with America. “I don’t think Trump knows that Liberia was established as a free colony for Black Americans in the 19th ...

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

California’s court fight to reign in the president's use of troops in Los Angeles now hangs on a 19th century law with grim origins and a Spaghetti Western-sounding moniker.

The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center celebrates its beginnings, at a moment when Black history is under attack.

A grant from the Illinois State Historic Records Advisory Board enabled the digitization of two Civil War-era diaries now available for online research on CARLI Digital Collections.

A fire that destroyed the big house on Louisiana's Nottoway Plantation led to a predictable response, with some Black people cheering and some white people mourning.

The remote ridge, which is tucked away a few miles off Route 3, has been renamed “Murry Hill” in honor of a 19th-century family of early Black settlers. The change, approved by the U.S. Board on ...