The first Black child born in America, William Tucker, was probably born on this date in Jamestown, Va. However, some ...

Today, many people associate epicureanism with hedonistic pleasure-seeking – but that’s not really what he taught.

Chicago’s role as a “hotbed of abolition” before the Civil War will be the subject Wednesday of a Looking for Lincoln Conversations program.

In the novel “Theft,” by the recent Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, three characters navigate messy relationships in 1980s ...

The Tyler school alum, who will have a career retrospective at PAFA, draws inspiration from the resilience and beauty of ...

By Bianca Machain, Walking into a room of historical figures may be a rare feat, but here at Cal Poly Pomona, it happens every February. Though currently caught in the midst of an erasure, Black ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture illuminates the brutalities of slavery and Jim Crow while also ...

(WIB) – Home to the school district with the largest percentage of Black children in Iowa, schoolchildren in the city of Waterloo, population 67,000, typically participated in an annual statewide ...

National Book Award-winning novel, 'James,' Percival Everett grapples with philosophical and metaphysical questions as well ...

A new book called The Two Princes of Mpfumo tells the fascinating story of a pair of royals from Mozambique in southern Africa whose lives were thrown into chaos by the transatlantic slave trade. We ...

Africa has had several descriptions over the years, at one time it was the Dark Continent, because nothing was known about it.

Their lives were thrown into chaos when they decided to travel to England to establish trade relations – but got sold into ...