The African American Museum in Philadelphia was understandably thrilled, then, when it acquired two small sculptures of hers. The plaster figures are now stored in the Arch Street institute's ...

C OLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a ...

Explore Black history and culture at Houston landmarks such as Freedmen’s Town, the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum and ...

South Carolina is erecting its first-ever statue of an African American in honor of a Civil War hero who escaped slavery and ...

Historian Julian Hayter said the tearing down of statues is a way of correctly rewriting American history. Many of the Confederate memorials in the spotlight today were built long after the Civil ...

John Carlos sits on the statue commemorating him ... to the public’s first impression of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, with all of the opening ceremony’s ...

From museums to statues and art galleries- encountering Black history in Greensboro is much easier, and much more common, than you may think.

Taney — infamous for the Dred Scott decision denying Black people citizenship — with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American justice. But a House effort to remove statues honoring ...

But whether those statues go or not, it’s clear that the U.S. would be well served with more monuments to African-Americans—and humans—like Arthur Ashe. —2017 Grand Slam Encores ...