Read then officially proclaimed February 2025 Black History Month in the City of Fairfax and encouraged residents to “seek out the many stories of the African American experience in our country ...

Lucy Parsons remains an under recognized yet powerful figure of American radicalism. New scholarship into her life and background is welcome but as this review suggests the recently published Goddess ...

Ben Okri is as vital to African literature as the late Gabriel García Márquez, the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, is to Latin American literature.

MOBILE, Ala. - The first African American woman to serve as the United States Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman died at the age of 77 on Friday.As a Mobile native, family and friends in the area ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC)- Walter Cooper the University of Rochester’s first Black Chemist is among the honorees at the Black Heritage Gala hosted annually by the City of Rochester. This year the theme ...

Late actress Cicely Tyson walks by a portrait of Rosa Parks at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History on October 31, 2005 in Detroit, Michigan.

Besides paying tribute to the women of the Ladies Auxiliary, the museum is expected to showcase the contributions of C.J. Walker, the first female self-made African American millionaire; U.S. Rep ...

During the spring of my first year, I went to a Black Student Union meeting where we watched and discussed “I am Not Your Negro,” a documentary about the life and work of James Baldwin.I raised my ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – African American writers in the 19th Century wrote of love, loss, and the Black experience. Les Editions Tintamarre is a heritage language press at Centenary ...

This year the theme of Black History Month was African American Labor and speaker Dr. Uzoma Miller focused on the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) held its 99th Annual Black History Luncheon in Washington D.C. on Feb. 22. The gathering carries on the legacy of the ...