Artists are asked to submit bold, vibrant works celebrating next year’s theme, "Black Women making history in WNY." ...

Pride Month, celebrated every June, honors the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York City—a watershed moment in the LGBTQ+ rights movement largely credited to the activism of Black and Latinx ...

The American Civil War marked a major turning point in the history of the United States ... After the Union forces had been depleted by 40 percent, Black men were finally permitted to join the Union ...

A Northern Virginia faith leader and parent said she will continue asking state lawmakers to make two African-American history courses count towards the state’s graduation requirements for ...

The 369th Infantry Regiment also known as the Harlem Hellfighters, was a group of Black soldiers who fought during World War I. The group made history as the infantry unit that spent the most time ...

Yet, the U.S. National Park Service has a webpage dedicated to the day's history. Throughout the Reconstruction era, Black Americans maintained a prominent role in Memorial Day observances ...

Amidst President Trump’s flurry of executive orders targeting civil rights and Black history, concerns are growing over exhibits being rotated out at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...

Black doctors like Rebecca Lee Crumpler and scholars like Katherine Johnson, a mathematician at NASA, were long written out of history, Edwards says. To him, Freedom House represents the histories ...