The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center celebrates its beginnings, at a moment when Black history is under attack.

As an heiress and accomplished marketer of Madam C.J. Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower, A’Lelia Walker hosted rising stars of ...

Teyana Taylor announces her Jordan Brand collaboration "A Rose From Harlem" Air Jordan 3 sneaker and new album "Escape Room" ...

A new biography of A’Lelia Walker—the daughter of beauty mogul Madam C. J. Walker—reveals how her role as one of her era's ...

Built in 1880 by a congregation comprised of formerly enslaved people and their descendants, the church is an enduring, ...

This is the 31st group of grantees for the organization, which has now funded work in 71 of the state's 75 counties, with the ...

Representation of non-Abrahamic religions and spiritual traditions, particularly in the mainstream comics universe, is ...

A local artist poses the question “WTF Can Artists Do During a Fascist Takeover?” - that’s the title of a new web comic by Providence-based artist, educator and organizer Jordan Seaberry. He joined me ...

I believe that Black people should be able to experience the joy and the pleasure and the normalcy of walking into a museum ...

President John F. Kennedy declares during a nationwide radio and television address that segrega­tion was “morally wrong” and told the U.S. Congress it was “time to act” (pass legislation) to end all ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there's Juneteenth, birthdays for Gallery 263 and “Rocky Horror ...

The music world mourns Sly Stone, funk pioneer and leader of Sly and the Family Stone, who died in Los Angeles at 82.