Two Harrisburg men shared a name, William Jones. They both served as doctors. And both lived in the same part of town, the largely Black and immigrant Old 8th Ward. It was wiped out more than a ...

According to expert assessments commissioned by the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA), the authority which last fall, ...

Knowledge is power,” so the saying goes. Just how knowledgeable are you about the units of the National Park System? You may ...

A small team of volunteers successfully identified and restored the graves of freedom-seekers in St. Catharines, Ont. Now, one volunteer and historian says a dispute over how to honour a prominent ...

Black History Month was recognized nationally in 1976, when President Gerald Ford designated the month as a time for the ...

In 1943 when Congress okayed the establishment of The George Washington Carver National Monument, it was a powerful tribute ...

Black Brooklynites had a very sophisticated understanding of their own freedom, of contouring what ... difference was in Manhattan, that was a white philanthropic-led initiative, meaning ...

Walker’s new installation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art offers us visions from both the past and future.

Koyo Kouoh, who will curate the 2026 Venice Biennale, has assembled a huge survey at the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts in ...

What began as Negro History Week — established by historian Carter G. Woodson in February 1926 — evolved into Black History ...

Ellsworth Cemetery was founded by a small cadre of Black Civil War Veterans in 1876 to provide a burial ground for the ...

An opera about the Underground Railroad has interesting ties to Lexington and one of its greatest basketball players.