"Jaja's African Hair Braiding" is the comedic Broadway play closing out Ensemble Theatre's 2025 season. Why it's a must-see.

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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 ...

The African & African American Studies (AFAM) program offers the B.A. degree in African & African American Studies. AFAM has the mission to provide studies with a broad, interdisciplinary education ...

Black women are starting to pay more for their hair care because of the Trump administration’s tariffs on goods imported from China ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.