A Massachusetts city was once home to a famous abolitionist who picked Valentine's Day to celebrate his birth. Frederick Douglass is now forever enshrined in the New Bedford neighborhood where he once ...

Solving Sacramento Founded by visual artist and community leader Shonna McDaniels, the Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum is a ...

Frustrated with the absence of positive representations of Black people in art, John Wilson responded by providing images of Black dignity while addressing the painful realities of racial prejudice.

Friends, family and supporters of one of Liberty County’s giants in civil rights got a glimpse at the honor that will stand ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

Wilson was headed for a building he’d never visited before — the US Capitol, where his bust of Martin Luther King Jr. would ...

Yet while white people felt welcomed, many Black residents said their civil rights were violated. In 1971, after a trial, U.S. District Judge Damon Keith ruled that the city had intentionally targeted ...

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

It’s an unusually upbeat ending for a play about loss, a quality it shares with Primary Trust, which won the 2024 drama ...

Consider visiting some of these sites to mark Black History Month or keep them in mind to travel to when the weather is ...

Brooks' real estate and development work helped pave the way to homeownership for dozens of Milwaukee families ...