African Diaspora
Black Americans living overseas have embraced Juneteenth as a day of reflection and an opportunity to educate people in their…
News
Today in 1911, Amanda Aldridge performed a recital on her piano at Queens Small Hall, the main concert auditorium in…
Black History Month
Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in North…
Black History Month
"There are places where people find their identities and find their friends," said a patron, "and Eso Won was one…
Juneteenth
Retailers and marketers have been quick to commemorate Juneteenth with an avalanche of merchandise from ice cream to T-shirts to…
Juneteenth
"Portraits ‘N Color: Repowered" and "History Half Told Is Untold" will air this weekend on Saturday, June 18th, and Sunday,…
Black History Month
The non-binding resolution pledges Boston will remove "prominent anti-Black symbols" and teach residents its history in the slave trade.
Juneteenth
Lawmakers in Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and other states failed to pass laws to close state offices and give…
Juneteenth
La. exhibit tells story of nearly 300 enslaved people Georgetown University sold to pay off its debt
"GU272 and Ascension Parish: The Jesuit and Episcopal Connection to Slavery" is a project of the River Road African American…
Juneteenth
More than 2000 first-person accounts of slavery in America have been compiled for a collection that is now available online.Â
Sports
The film "Quiet Pioneer: The Wilbur Jackson Story" tells the story of Wilbur Jackson, the first Black scholarship football player…
Black History Month
The Milbank Memorial Fund is apologizing to descendants of Tuskegee experiment victims for its racist role in the deadly study.