February is Black History Month, a time the country highlights and celebrates the accomplishments of Black Americans. And the ...

The Schomburg Center is celebrating its 100th anniversary while preserving more than 11 million items in the archive.

February’s Chapter Chat pick is Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson. “This is a very unique and very special book because it’s actually a memoir in verse,” Warren explained. These poems tell the ...

Kendrick Lamar and SZA will take the stage at the year's biggest football game -- but there's some controversy.

Irvin Weathersby Jr. explores America’s museums and monuments in his new book, “In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy ...

The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn that he misrepresents the country’s past.

Local author Thomas Kohnstamm's new book, "Supersonic," is an intergenerational story that takes place in Seattle in the 19th ...

Reading accounts, on old note cards in a library basement, of every police shooting in Birmingham for decades, realizing that ...

A new course in the Graduate School of Education is bringing an innovative approach to teaching Black history to educators by ...

Jennifer Finney Boylan discusses her new book about the transgender experience, Donald Trump, Caitlyn Jenner and her own trans daughter.

"High Banks & Heroes," with foreword by Richard Petty, tells the history of the Daytona 500. But it also chronicles earlier Daytona racing and speed.

A Mercedes-Benz just sold for US$52.4 million (€51.15 million) at auction, though the real story is the relentless and ...