“Minneapolis is a city of progress, but it’s crucial we also reflect on our history and learn from it,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said in a press conference on July 11. “Minneapolis has long been ...

Image courtesy of the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Donald Felder and family, Object no. 2014.205.2.1.

We are of African American heritage.” In 1989 the columnist and historian Roger Wilkins told Isabel Wilkerson: “Whenever I go to Africa, I feel like a person with a legitimate place to stand ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture opened to the public in 2016. It contains more than 40,000 artifacts documenting more than 400 years of African American history.

Pinkster is among an array of lesser-known African American holidays, although historians say it is likely one of the earliest. As the broader U.S. population prepares to honor Juneteenth, a ...

At a time when it is under scrutiny from the White House, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is without its director, who stepped down last month.