A medieval embroidery known as the Bayeux Tapestry recounts key events of the 11th century, particularly William the Conqueror's triumph at the Battle of Hastings and the demise o ...

Bey’s show gets its name from a passage in the second stanza of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the hymn by James Weldon Johnson ...

Laura “Dollie” Johnson Dandridge was born into slavery in 1852 near Georgetown. She became a favorite cook among Union troops ...

Aristides won the very first Kentucky Derby, but history also remembers the colt’s jockey: Oliver Lewis, a Black jockey from Lexington.

A free symposium at the museum Feb. 15 will look at African American engagment in World War II and its place in social ...

Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's ...

President Jimmy Carter’s connections to Concord. Last year ... fifth graders at Beverly Hills Elementary School to visit the White House. That’s one of a handful of connections between ...

A couple from Massachusetts that voted illegally in New Hampshire have lost their privileges of ever voting here in the future, and a Granite Stater could share the same penalty if convicted in an ...

Patton resolved this by assigning Black soldiers to man these checkpoints with orders to shoot any suspicious white individuals. The Battle of the Bulge was grueling and bloody: the 761st suffered 156 ...

Oklahoma State’s season is getting rougher. On Tuesday, the Cowboys fell 85-69 at BYU to fall to 1-4 in conference play and somehow managed to lose in multiple fashions. Unsurprisingly, the ...