Victoria Christopher Murray's new historical novel, "Harlem Rhapsody," is a love letter to Harlem in the early 1920s and to ...

The New World Symphony launched “I Dream a World” in 2022 serves also as a platform to encourage dialogue about the enduring ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why ...

Bessie Coleman was an ambitious young woman, inspired by Black pilots in World War I. Her accomplishments inspired ...

In the 1920s, the organ played a role in a celebration of Black achievement. With the teaching of that history now under ...

Feb. 27 — In 1869, John Willis Menard rose from his seat in the chamber of the U.S. Congress to defend his status as the ...

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...

A showcase of teens’ talent and creativity includes flower silhouettes, neon acrylic artwork inspired by the artist Derrick ...

the suits of the Harlem Renaissance, and more modern works by designers like Virgil Abloh and Pharrell Williams, who is serving as a co-chair for the event. Louis Vuitton is actually a co-sponsor ...

No one has played a greater role in helping all Americans know the black past than Carter G. Woodson, the individual who ...