Black History Month

Southern Arizona African American museum to host first in-person guest, exhibits this month after launching online on Dec. 31. 
/ November 1, 2022
The city of New York is settling lawsuits filed on behalf of two men who were exonerated last year for the 1965…
/ October 31, 2022
The new “Impact of Images” campaign includes the celebrated work of Black photographers and photojournalists from the civil rights and…
/ October 31, 2022
Concordia University in Montreal has issued a public apology for its handling of an anti-racism protest in the late 1960s.
/ October 29, 2022
Mound Bayou, founded by formerly enslaved people, served as a staging ground for Emmett Till's mother and Black journalists covering…
/ October 29, 2022
Emory University
Emory is taking applications for its African American Studies PhD program, the first of its kind at a private university…
/ October 27, 2022
A judge has sided with Richmond officials in a lawsuit over whether the Virginia city can remove a final Confederate monument and…
/ October 27, 2022
Tulsa race massacre
The latest exhumations at Oaklawn Cemetery will be followed by another excavation for bodies' remains to gather more DNA.
/ October 26, 2022
Toni Morrison, thegrio.com
Authors Toni Morrison and Ernest J. Gaines are on the list of honorees to receive a new stamp from the…
/ October 25, 2022
Reginald DesRoches has made history in becoming Rice University's first Black president and the eighth president in its 110-year history.
/ October 25, 2022
A hand crosses out the word "Racism" on a chalkboard
The idea that Black people are better off in American than in Africa is racist and it depends on ignoring…
/ October 25, 2022
"The 1619 Project" publisher launches a series of readalongs with authors Matthew Desmond, Michelle Alexander, Leslie Alexander, and more.
/ October 25, 2022