Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

Supreme Court of Georgia Justice Verda Colvin will present “Mentorship: Lifting as We Climb” at 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, at ...

A historian couple in North Carolina opened their house for visitors to explore Black history in a homegrown tour.

In the late 1940s, when housing discrimination was common, what is now Cascade Valley Metro Park included a neighborhood ...

What began as Negro History Week — established by historian Carter G. Woodson in February 1926 — evolved into Black History ...

Linda Dorsey-Walker is a walking museum of Black history. It all started with a quest to know more about her family history.

The Gullah Geechee descended from Africans enslaved on the rice, indigo and cotton plantations. Efforts are underway to ...

In recent decades, museums and galleries have made a sensory turn when it comes to designing displays and engaging visitors.Museums like ...

To both honor a local African American trailblazer and also address an urgent need in the community, the former Coleman-Franklin-Cannon Mill in Concord will eventually be turned into affordable housin ...

The story of the late Geraldine “Jeri” Cousins Palmer, her parents, their relatives and neighbors will be on display at their ...

The 'Titanic' sinking became the most infamous shipwreck in history—but what really happened on that unusually calm night in ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West, shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the shipwreck and ...