Tilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to ...

Collective contributions from Dr. Henry Rowan and Dr. Henry (Harry) D. Ellis form a powerful history — one of resilience, healing and an unyielding demand for equity. And thanks to ...

A Scottish newspaper is making headlines of its own for it’s big, bold front page Friday as President Donald Trump travels to the country to visit his ...

The Springfield Police Department is making history after promoting its first Black police officer to a sergeant. Jeremiah Lockett is the first African American officer in the department's history ...

Kinsley Steinkamp, 8, daughter of Brody and Jessica Steinkamp of Wall Lake, was crowned Little Miss Black Hawk Sunday evening at Lake View’s 72nd annual Water Carnival on Black Hawk Lake. The pageant ...

Inflation and the rise of streaming services have created an unexpected challenge: running a comedy club. Black-owned venues are particularly strained.

Black churches, cemeteries and seminaries with ties to African American history are among 24 cultural sites across the country receiving grants from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in a ...

Paper Tiger, a popular live music venue in San Antonio, Texas, says it will host a free show covering Black Sabbath and Ozzy's biggest hits in August.

For decades, the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans has served as one of America’s largest repositories of artifacts on Black history, from 15 million rare documents dating back to the 1780s ...