Several years into teaching I discovered that some of my students were not only buying and reading the books I recommended, ...

There’s a little more than a week left in Black History Month 2025 ... civil rights leader Frederick Douglass (Feb. 14) and U ...

Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President Abraham Lincoln’s more famous Emancipation Proclamation by two years.

February is Black History Month, set aside to honor the history of African-Americans. February was chosen to also honor ...

Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why ...

Adam Krall, a historic site interpreter with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, showcases an original rifle that ...

During the Black History Month ceremony, which preserved a long-standing and bipartisan White House tradition, Trump omitted ...

From Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali to Colin Kaepernick, the achievements of Black athletes have had a role in ...

This year’s Black History Month theme is “African Americans and Labor,” focusing on the ways work impacts “the collective experiences of Black people,” according to the Association for the Study of ...