Samuel Black gave a tour of the "From Slavery to Freedom" exhibit at the Heinz History Center and talked about Pittsburgh's role in African American history. He explained that the exhibit takes ...

With the government shutdown in the rearview mirror, local museums and cultural institutions are once again offering public ...

Friday marked the 65th anniversary of Ruby Bridges becoming the first African American to integrate an all-white school after ...

Visit any region of the United States, and you'll find Black American cuisine with historic and multinational roots. Some dishes are so indelible to American culture that the contributions of African ...

Martin Plaut, a journalist, academic and author, delivers a sweeping historical account of African enslavement across five millennia, tracing its global routes, atrocities and lasting legacies. He ...

President Trump’s attack on The Smithsonian Institute for focusing too much on “how bad slavery was” is like criticizing the Bible for focusing too much on sin. Slavery is nothing less than America’s ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will celebrate its ninth anniversary Sept. 24. Since opening in 2016, the museum has welcomed almost 13 million ...

Longtime museum employee Kevin Davidson discusses founder Dr. Charles H. Wright and more. It’s a big year for the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. The Detroit treasure is ...

WASHINGTON – Hundreds of people joined a rally on May 3 to show support for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the wake of threats by the Trump administration and others ...

Vicksburg native Willie Glasper, Sr. is passionate about the city’s rich history. He has written a booklet titled the Vicksburg African American Heritage Tour Guide, which was published by Visit ...

A newly unveiled Virginia State Historical Marker is just part of an ongoing effort to tell the story of a once-vibrant Alexandria community whose descendants proudly refer to it by the name it was ...

HAMPTON, Virginia ‒ As a child, Djimon Hounsou played soccer on the beaches of his native Benin, a small country in West Africa. He didn't know then that those same beaches had been a “path of no ...