The Hampton University Museum, the oldest African American museum in the U.S., has received a $5 million renovation.

The Hampton University Museum is home to 200 years of fine arts represented across 11 galleries and is the oldest African ...

Lane Nichols takes a luxury cruise down the mighty Mississippi River and falls in love with New Orleans jazz music, Delta blues and the deep South.

Located just outside the city proper, Bonaventure Cemetery deserves its reputation as one of the most beautiful final resting ...

A new exhibit at the Plano African American Museum focuses on the women who organized the Underground Railroad to Mexico, a ...

The Sankofa African American Museum made a pitstop in Charleston on Sunday to showcase African American history to the community.Museum curator Angela Jennings ...

The museum's journey begins in Africa, and expands into slavery, lynching, African American inventors, and all the way up into present day. The collection of items on display today varied from ...

As the International African American Museum ... The Charleston museum plans to use the grant to deepen education efforts about the transatlantic slave trade. IAAM also plans to strengthen ...

Walker's African American Museum is reportedly excluded from Nevada's new Hundred Plan in Action, but she plans to reopen within six months. Gwen Walker, owner of the Walker African American ...

"I envision a permanent exhibit that tells the African American journey—from Africa, through the transatlantic slave trade, and onto these shores—while also showcasing local history," she says.

The storyteller joins a team of African American divers on their worldwide quest to shed light on the untold history of the ...

This model shows a typical ship in the early 1700s on the Middle Passage. To preserve their profits, captains and sailors tried to limit the deaths of slaves from disease, suicide, and recolts.