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 ...

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.

There are more than 140 other artists on display around the Bay as part of the greater “Art of the African Diaspora” project.

Ralph Waldo Quarterman, a civil rights pioneer and Liberty County businessman, is being honored with a statue at the county ...

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

This commentary by Dr. Willie J. Greer Kimmons is the first of a two-part series on prominent Black men and women. This week ...

In celebration of Black History Month in February, MPR News is highlighting Black history throughout the state. From a fur ...

I am not a baseball historian,” said Michael Schwartz. “I’m not even a big baseball fan. But I think I think this project is ...

Dive into the work of Black artists and Black history at one of these current or upcoming art exhibitions in Richmond.

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 ...