AFRICAN AMERICANS. Cleveland's African American community is almost as old as the city itself. GEORGE PEAKE, the first Black settler, arrived in 1809 and by 1860 there were 799 Black people living in ...

New Encyclopedia Chronicles African American Lives Mary Elizabeth Bowser served Jefferson Davis in the Confederate White House. She was also a spy — for the Union. Bowser's story is one of many ...

A Rider University professor co-wrote and edited the newly published Encyclopedia of Black Comics (Fulcrum, 2017) because nothing like it existed — and she thought it should. “It’s not just about ...

Althea Gibson shattered barriers in tennis and beyond by becoming the first Black athlete to win major titles and blaze a ...

Benberry, Cuesta. Always There: The African American Presence in American Quilts. The Kentucky Quilt Project, Inc.: Louisville, 1992. A selection of quilts and with chapters that include slave-made ...

Asian Americans are “Asian.” But for any number of reasons, it’s hard to imagine a great many Black Americans opting to call ...

An Encyclopedia of African American Christian Heritage Marvin Andrew McMickle. Judson Press, $30 (301pp) ISBN 978-0-8170-1402-5.

O n the first day of one of the first AP African American Studies classes ever taught, Marlon Williams-Clark rattled off a list of Black luminaries to see how many his students had heard of.. Only ...

African-Americans have made a vast contribution for the history of South Carolina throughout it over 300-year history. The African-American story lies at the very heart of our heritage.

Many assume African-American cuisine consists solely of fried chicken, collards, and cornbread. These are indeed touchstones of Black food in America, but that assumption is limiting in more ways ...

Pinkster is among an array of lesser-known African American holidays, although historians say it is likely one of the earliest. As the broader U.S. population prepares to honor Juneteenth, a ...