For members of St. John AME Church in Hampstead, it is a special place to worship and hope that will continue for many more ...

Explore Black history and culture at Houston landmarks such as Freedmen’s Town, the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum and Emancipation Park.

Growing up, Dayna James never thought she’d willingly step foot on a plantation, let alone thank God for one. On an early ...

Zora Neale Hurston's work didn't have the literary appreciation it now has until more than 15 years after her death in 1960.

The SC Department of Archives and History (SCDAH) administers the States’s historical marker program which was established in ...

Ellsworth Cemetery was founded by a small cadre of Black Civil War Veterans in 1876 to provide a burial ground for the ...

A local Virginia church is ending its contract with The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts due to the center's ...

EDWARDSVILLE - Margie P. Hollins’ sister called her hysterical and in tears. “They’re tearing down the church,” cried Marlene D ...

Literacy InterActives, Inc., a nonprofit organization based in Southside Virginia, is thrilled to announce the return of its Black History Month series for our community readers. The 2025 Black ...

Nebo Baptist Church in Monroe. He passed away on February 1, 2025. For over the last 15 years, his new family church home has been St. Elmo Ave ... Chattanooga's Greyhound first African-American ...

So said Marshall Walter “Major” Taylor, cycling’s first African-American world champion ... This despite not competing on Sundays due to his devout Baptist beliefs — and in the face of ugly, brutal ...

He is also a professor of law and a professor of African American studies and ethnic ... Jr. sit in a pew's hymnal rack at Pilgrim Baptist Church in St. Paul. “The Reverend Dr. King wasn't ...