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So yes, we love a good ROI,but we also love a good “told-you-so” to every fund that overlooked brilliance in a hoodie and braids." According to Serena Ventures' website, 53% of the companies ...
Charles H. Wright began his life under Jim Crow segregation before going on to found what would become one of America’s first, largest, and most prestigious African American history museums.
Denver Public Library's interim director apologizes after removal of replica of prop desk 02:53 A controversy has been brewing at Denver's Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library after ...
ANN ARBOR, MI — Khalil Peaks has been with Ann Arbor’s African American Festival since the beginning. “When I started my business back in the ’70s, and when this festival started ...
ELSMERE, Ky. — Overgrown weeds, uneven ground and headstones covered by bushes and trees is putting one historic African American cemetery in disarray. “These are all over; you could break ...
New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th century. On Saturday ...
It would do us a world of good." Mary Elliott, a curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, agrees. "There are many examples today—the Tulsa race riots ...
To mark this month’s opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, we interviewed folks visiting the National Mall about what they would like to ask the museum’s experts.
Black women are starting to pay more for their hair care because of the Trump administration’s tariffs on goods imported from China ...
The daring and desperate acts of rebellion from New York to the Caribbean shattered contemporary stereotypes of enslaved peoples and challenged the institution of slavery itself. In 1811, enslaved ...
Read full article: Orlando preps Pulse site as victims, survivors allowed inside for first time GROVELAND, Fla. – Months after celebrating the restoration of the Oak Tree Union Colored Cemetery ...
I even wrote my award-winning memoir, “The Cooking Gene,” tracing my ancestry from Africa to America, from enslavement to emancipation, using the story of African American food combined with ...