In recognition of Black History Month, we look at the Florence Farming Association at the Florence Hill New York State Forest ...

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

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – “Making an Impact: Highlighting Youngstown’s African American Community” has opened at the Arms Family ...

Benjamin Quarles, a celebrated historian at Morgan State University, faced an uphill battle to chronicle the Black experience ...

A new exhibit has just opened at the Arms Family Museum in Youngstown showcasing the city's African American community. The ...

According to the 1850 U.S. census, there were 90 free African Americans living in the Mahoning Valley - of this number, 37 ...

Capital Area District Libraries’ expert selectors have curated a dynamic Black History Month reading list for all ages, ...

There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...

Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

It will begin by focusing on Olaudah Equiano, one of the most famous Black abolitionists of the 18th Century, whose powerful ...

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.