The Black Appalachian Storyteller Fellowship will award $5,000 to six Black artists who best depict Appalachian culture and ...

Following a Mediterranean diet long-term may have weight loss benefits but it may not be enough to enhance cognitive function ...

Ball, a free man of color, opened a one-room photo studio in Cincinnati in 1845, but the business soon folded. He honed his ...

Jacksonville students create educational materials on local African American history at the Summer Writing Institute.

At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.

Soul Rep, Circle and Stage West noticed they had all scheduled plays by African-American writers and decided to coordinate.

A history of the first African American White House—and of what came next ...

At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, visitors pushed back against the claim that the museum perpetuated anti-American ideology.

Since their founding in 1990, African American Read-Ins have become a Black History Month tradition at school and community gatherings nationwide.

Southern California is home to a wide variety of events that celebrate this important month, from creative workshops and live performances to exhibitions and community gatherings.

In Courtney Thorsson's cultural history The Sisterhood, she details how intimate gatherings played a role in the golden age of Black women's writing.