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Two centuries later, a number of women in Oakland are recreating the Underground Railroad quilt. It’s one of the annual ...

In October many people around the UK will be celebrating Black History Month. It's a time for people from all backgrounds to enjoy and acknowledge the amazing things black people have achieved.

Cralle was an African American businessman and inventor who was best known for inventing the ice cream scoop in 1897. Yes, a Black man did that! Cralle was born on September 4, 1866, in Kenbridge, ...

Anthony Omene, creator of RZNWA Media, who had been amplifying the voices of those speaking out about anti-Black racism in Ukraine ... Soviet and African American history. In fact, under Lenin ...

May, like all months, is filled with moments critical to the history and movement of Black people. May produced several giants of “our story.” The month also witnessed groundbreaking court decisions ...

A North Carolina legislator says President Donald Trump is the reason why one of the world’s largest corporations decided to scrap a Black History Month recognition on its widely used calendar app.

Before it became the Beck Cultural Exchange Center, the century-old house on Dandridge Avenue was already entwined with Knoxville's Black history. The Black families who lived there during the ...

During the workweek, Stocks is executive director of Oregon Black Pioneers, a group that documents and disseminates the African American history of a state that’s 87 percent white. On weekends ...

Anika Lopes, who founded Ancestral Bridges, said the site is the first in town to explore the erased, obscure and lesser known Black and Afro-Indigenous history in Amherst. Calling it the “first ...

This order threatens not only the ability of institutions to engage with the honest and truthful telling of Black history, but also our shared ability as a nation to understand Black history as a ...

Bill Price scours the internet for old black and white photographs and brings fragments of Florida history to life with color. The Monticello native, now retired and living in Roswell ...