As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

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

The most popular African American-helmed comedies of the 1980s and 1990s made millions of people laugh, but San Francisco ...

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

Phylicia Rashad has joined the cast as an aristocratic matriarch. In an interview, she, Audra McDonald and Denée Benton ...

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 ...

Wendel A. White / Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA in honor of Dr. James Farmer In ...

It is not blood alone that binds Black Americans to this soil. America, as we know it today, simply would not exist without ...

The New Jersey Reparations Council has released its report on reparations for Black people impacted by the legacy of slavery in the Garden State.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is in the crosshairs of Donald Trump's executive order, which aims to "revitalize key cultural institutions and reverse the ...

Jacksonville students create educational materials on local African American history at the Summer Writing Institute.