No aviation schools in America would teach Bessie Coleman how to fly in the 1920s. So, she sailed to France and became the ...

This February at the museum, we're celebrating a new season of the podcast, commemorating Black History Month, and listening ...

On a memorial getting ready to stand outside an old schoolhouse built for Black children, Lonnie Davis is helping etch the ...

America made its history as the first Black person, Barack Obama, was sworn in as the 44th president of the country. In front ...

President Donald Trump lied about the Panama Canal, 2020 election, and Nancy Pelosi, but also correctly noted that he scored ...

For nearly 100 years, it has been a tradition to celebrate Black History Month to ... it upon himself to compile Afro-Latino history. He joined the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Committee and co-founded ...

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson makes waves at the 2025 presidential inauguration, with a nod to her heritage.

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.

An emotional General Assembly gathering to remember the 100 Black Virginians served in the Virginia General Assembly from the late 1870s to 1890 and in the 1867 constitutional convention.

Ketanji Brown Jackson made a profound style statement at the 2025 presidential inauguration. Her cowrie shells signify ...