Gracie McGraw, the eldest daughter of famous country music stars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, shared an important message this year.

One of the earliest Memorial Day celebrations was held by Black people to honor those who died in the Civil War. Here, we ...

1862—Mary Jane Patterson be­comes the first Black woman in U.S. History to be awarded a master ... prison after serving 19 months of a 23-month sentence for financing a dog fighting ring.

May, like all months, is filled with moments critical to the history and movement of Black people. May produced several giants of “our story.” The month also witnessed groundbreaking court decisions ...

The author of the article argues that Black history is American history and should be acknowledged and respected. She criticizes the recent executive order that threatens the Smithsonian's ...

A North Carolina legislator says President Donald Trump is the reason why one of the world’s largest corporations decided to scrap a Black History Month recognition on its widely used calendar app.

Before it became the Beck Cultural Exchange Center, the century-old house on Dandridge Avenue was already entwined with Knoxville's Black history. The Black families who lived there during the ...

nearly 64% of Black children have little to no swimming ability. The statistic is decades in the making, reflecting America’s long history of racial intolerance at pools that conflicted a little ...

Anika Lopes, who founded Ancestral Bridges, said the site is the first in town to explore the erased, obscure and lesser known Black and Afro-Indigenous history in Amherst. Calling it the “first ...

This order threatens not only the ability of institutions to engage with the honest and truthful telling of Black history, but also our shared ability as a nation to understand Black history as a ...

(OSV News) – A New Orleans genealogist has found that the first U.S.-born pope has Black and Creole roots – and the discovery illuminates the nation’s rich multiracial history, the experience of Black ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The new pope’s French-sounding last name ...