Many a socialite visited Ann Lowe’s Gowns, a salon on Manhattan’s Lexington Avenue, in the 1950s. The daughter and granddaughter of African American seamstresses, Lowe designed the wedding dress worn ...

Tuskegee Institute in Alabama is the most famous Black college in the United States. Between 1881 and 1915, its president was ...

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 ...

Juneteenth, observed annually on June 19th, commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States, marking a moment of liberation and reflection on a complex and often ...

The global respect that African Americans seek cannot be achieved by denying Africa – it can only be strengthened by embracing it.

Celebrating what was rooted in Africa and cultivated in America ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at age 84, helped push for widespread usage of the term “African American” as a way to reclaim cultural identity.

Kevin Young, who has led the National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021, went on leave before the president criticized the institution in an executive order. By Graham Bowley ...

ABC15's Christel Bell sat down with Erica Maxwell, Chairman of Phoenix Annual Black Children's Book Week Celebration.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Dr. Kamin Samuel, the first African American ...

This article initially appeared in Yiddish and can be read here. America held many surprises for Jewish immigrants arriving at its shores over 150 years ago but one of the most significant was meeting ...