The university is celebrating pioneer George Washington Carver with a day of recognition program Monday in the Great Hall.

A new biography of Charles W. Chesnutt, by Tess Chakkalakal, explains the friendships and tensions he had with his white ...

One of most important figures in our nation’s culinary history toiled away in the slave kitchens of an American founding ...

Although “I Am Nobody’s Slave” takes the form of a memoir, Minnesota native Lee Hawkins’ book becomes something bigger: an ...

Civil rights activist Ida B. Wells will be featured on newly minted U.S. quarters. Historian Raffi Andonian joins Jenye Donaldson to share Wells' story.

Gerald Norwood is a Wichita collector of "African Americana" — letters, legal papers and other artifacts of the black ...

This week, the Trump administration doubled down in its fight against birthright citizenship. The usual alliance of pundits, professors and press lined up to declare any challenge to birthright ...

Feb. 1 marks the first day of Black History Month, and suddenly the study of the Black experience may feel like an act of ...

US President Donald Trump has only been back in office for a few days, but there are already plans to immortalize his face on ...

No other president, Republican or Democrat, has ever used a Black History Month proclamation for such crass self-promotion.” ...

Choice Mutual asked more than 3,100 people if they could be buried next to any celebrity, who would they choose.