The art form of drag -formed in a time of extreme gender policing- has its roots deeply embedded in Black queer celebrations ...

On this summer night, 132 years ago, July 10, 1893, James Cornish didn’t know if he would live to see dawn. Stabbed in the chest during an altercation in Chicago, he was rushed to Provident Hospital ...

As the first Black woman maintenance steelworker at the Tulsa plant where she worked for 42 years, Mitchell said she appreciates how Black History Saturdays goes all the way back to Egyptian times.

Black women's beauty and fashion are complex, meaningful acts, deliberate strategies for engaging with the world that make bold statements about identity, political resistance and empowerment ...

The three-week Teen Summit, called Digging the Roots of Black Struggles to Successes, gives students in grades 5 through 12 a deeper understanding of Black history, culture and identity — from ...

Black history contains stories of triumph and joy, but cannot be understood outside of the brutality of systemic racism. Do institutions acknowledge these complications and contradictions, at the ...

The Trump administration’s framing of Black history as “D.E.I.” — and “D.E.I.” as harming white Americans — recasts its attack on Black history as protecting white Americans.

Hendersonville commemorates the 60th anniversary of the integration of its schools with a new film documenting the Black community’s thirst for education when "Color Beyond the Lines," a new film by ...

A journey to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture took me places I will not soon forget.

The Met’s exhibition charts the evolution of the Black dandy from the 18th century to today. Here’s what to look for on the red carpet.

Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” is Black history written with lightning The film's triumph at the box office affirms that Black narratives don't need white validation to thrive ...

Donald Trump's executive order targets the National Museum of African American History and Culture, aiming to erase African American history and culture.