A Massive Archive Tells the Story of Early African American Photographers Arresting portraits, now a part of the Smithsonian collections, illuminate the little-known role these artists played in ...

A vital American Folk Art Museum show reckons with centuries of erasure by uncovering historical records of the unnamed Black people depicted in artwork.

If Peter H. Wood wants to stump some University of Colorado history majors about early American history, he’ll ask them which of the original 13 colonies was the wealthiest before the American ...

This episode traces the story of people of color on American television — including the mid-1960s breakthroughs of Diahann Carroll, Bill Cosby and more.

As an artistic exploration of the early African American experience, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts exhibition “Dawoud Bey: Elegy” looks and sounds like a gothic horror story. Acclaimed ...

DNA analysis of African Americans buried at an early U.S. iron forge reveals locations of their African and European ancestors and finds more than 40,000 living U.S. relatives. The study is the ...

American history classes teach students about the struggles experienced by Black Americans before and after the Civil War. An English assistant professor at the University of Iowa wants to shed light ...

Features After delays, the International African American Museum is set to open early 2023 by Herb Frazier August 17, 2022 International African American Museum | CP file photo by Ruta Smith ...

U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris celebrated the Juneteenth holiday early on Monday with a White House concert that included singers Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle and ...

Black Americans are leading the fight to chronicle and preserve their historic role in building Silicon Valley's tech industry before time runs out.

The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) will relocate and reopen its African American art galleries in October 2025. The new galleries will be centrally located near the Rivera Court, showcasing 50 ...

Black churches back embattled Smithsonian African American history museum after Trump’s order Critics say Trump is trying to force a distorted national narrative that glosses over slavery and ...