Many people outside the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture community remain unaware of the center’s existence.

And yet, the genocide continues. Why? It turns out the world has a dismal record when it comes to recognising – and acting against – crimes against humanity while they are being committed. Take, for ...

Kevin Sack, who shared in three Pulitzer Prizes for the New York Times, spent 10 years researching and writing about Mother Emanuel AME Church. His book, Mother Emanuel, has just been published.

Ready for Freedom Day? 30 Ways To Celebrate Juneteenth 2025 first appeared on Parade on Jun 16, 2025 This story was ...

After the state restricted how lessons on race and gender could be taught, activist Kristi Williams turned anger into ...

Join San Antonio for heartfelt Juneteenth celebrations. Enjoy parades, concerts, markets, and immerse yourself in a rich ...

UNL professor and novelist Timothy Schaffert recently took over as editor of the Prairie Schooner, the university's ...

How an Ovid-quoting London broadsheet from the late seventeenth century spawned “Dear Abby,” Dan Savage, and Reddit’s Am I ...

Some Jews were abolitionists. Some were slaveholders. The complicated relationship between Jews and African Americans goes back 200 years.

Reporter Kevin Sack's new book is a history of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black congregation in the South, ...

The passing of celebrated Kenyan writer and scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o on 28 May 2025 marks the end of a remarkable period in African literary history - the fabulous decades in the second half of the ...