Art in public places is said to inspire pride and interest in one’s community, and the installations themselves often become ...

A "cultural Mecca" for the Black community, Harlem's historic Apollo Theater is set to undergo a major renovation. Newsweek ...

I love introducing kids to ordinary people who did amazing things by reading picture book biographies for kids. Don't you? These biographies for kids are inspirational narrative nonfiction texts that ...

One of the most famous legends about Robert Johnson is ... rooted in the musical traditions and cultural experiences of African Americans in the United States. It originated from work songs ...

Americans at large disapprove of President ... Sanford, which had held that people of African descent can never acquire American citizenship, and to provide a constitutional backstop for Black ...

The order singles out the National Museum of African ... whose famous tagline is, you know, “Florida was last hired and first fired.” These are all things that Black Americans are fully ...

For years, a National Park Service webpage introduced the Underground Railroad with a large photograph of its most famous “conductor ... efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their ...

The most famous example of this conflict is the Jim Crow era after Reconstruction, when many of the political and legal rights gained by African Americans in the Civil War era were swept away by ...

From activists to entertainers to record-breaking athletes to a postal worker, we are shining a spotlight on the contributions of influential Black Americans as we celebrate Black History Month.

Many songs celebrating the holiday are written by African Americans — people we know ... He once described his most famous song as more a meaning than a song: He pictured an aging Black ...