After more than a decade of planning, fundraising, and building, the new museum is open in Anacostia and celebrating go-go, D ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was instrumental in ensuring that Nichelle Nichols as Lieutenant Uhura stayed on Star Trek: The Original Series.

The preacher and civil rights activist tells us that we can all live and work together to make society a better place.

The Boys and Girls Club of Moultrie celebrated Black History Month by putting on an event at its different sites.

Educators are embracing rather than restricting discussions of race in schools. Leaders have said they’ll do so whether the ...

A $16 million redevelopment project that will transform the Upton Mansion into the new home of The Afro-American newspaper ...

I am a white, cis, heterosexual, well-educated woman of privilege. That matters for this piece because my social location is the context, while my experiences have formed who I am.

With more local history made this week — first Black Urbana mayor elected (DeShawn Williams), first Black Champaign Central ...

To commemorate Black History Month, Frederick News-Post staff photojournalist Katina Zentz talked to four women of the African American Resources Cultural and Heritage Society’s “Living Treasures” to ...

Woodson also founded Associated Publishers, which, in addition to publishing the Journal of Negro History, prepared kits for ...

Do you know who Anthony Benezet is? Or was?  Think about an early incarnation of Martin Luther King, Jr. … in whiteface.  Or Frederick Douglass’s brother from another mother.  Better […] ...

The historic Black Church was not established to be a passive institution, nor was it ever meant to cower before power. It ...