A massive oil painting featuring two of Congolese artist Sisqo Ndombe’s haunting “cracked people” welcomes visitors to the ...

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

Black History Month honors the achievements and struggles of African Americans throughout U.S. history, and it’s a great time ...

Mr Kingston, who was married to Lady Gabriella Kingston, the daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, died from a ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

The story of the late Geraldine “Jeri” Cousins Palmer, her parents, their relatives and neighbors will be on display at their ...

Harris's photographs, which capture Black life in mid-20th-century America, are now the subject of a permanent exhibit at the ...

The Mary S. Harrell Black Heritage Museum in New Smyrna Beach is dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of the city's historically Black Westside community.

King George VI died in his sleep. It was a defining moment in the British monarchy. Princess Elizabeth, then 25, was in Kenya ...

The ArtsCenter in Carrboro is opening The Portraits of Resistance and Resilience Exhibition Feb. 14 through March 3. The ...

According to UW, he will be the first African American to serve as President. “I am honored to be joining the University of Washington and excited to lead this extraordinary public university in ...

It's perhaps no surprise that Gloria would have a sweet family portrait in her house ... designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex.