The hidden story of enslaved Georgians who, however briefly, seized freedom during the Union general’s famous march to the ...

One of the first musicians to interpret the “Star Spangled Banner” in a way that displayed a Black consciousness was the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African ...

The exuberant carnival, a cherished tradition, celebrates the city's unique history and cultural diversity, drawing massive ...

Nationally acclaimed Frederick Douglass impersonator to present one-man show about the life of America’s greatest ...

In America, the land of the free, we saw in the past election that freedom is universally valued but not universally defined.

In 1896, Utah was admitted to the United States as the 45th state. In 1936, Billboard magazine published the first pop music ...

In December 1909, the Fisk University Jubilee Quartet, continuing the legacy of the original 1870s Fisk Jubilee Singers, recorded twelve songs at the Victor Studios in Camden, New Jersey. Among ...

You may never have heard of Brooklyn, Illinois. You might not be aware it’s one of the country’s first Black settlements, or ...

Daniel Chapo was sworn in at a time of widespread anger directed at his party, Frelimo, which has led the country for 50 ...