Mildred Bernard Martinez founded the preschool bearing her name in 1934 to serve young Black children during segregation.

Five years after a summer of protests rocked U.S. cities, the words "Black Lives Matter" have faded from the national conversation along with the murals that recognized that movement.

Cralle was an African American businessman and inventor who was best known for inventing the ice cream scoop in 1897. Yes, a Black man did that! Cralle was born on September 4, 1866, in Kenbridge, ...

So, what exactly is Black dandyism? At its core, it’s a fashion revolution, a movement steeped in history, resistance, and pride. But its impact stretches far beyond the sartorial. It’s a ...

During the workweek, Stocks is executive director of Oregon Black Pioneers, a group that documents and disseminates the African American history of a state that’s 87 percent white. On weekends ...

“It was a pivotal moment in American history even though it was shortly overthrown.” There was one other Reconstruction-era Black senator from Mississippi, Blanche Bruce. After he left the ...

In February, during Black History Month, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that his department would no longer participate in “identity-based observances.” The White House did ...

Now, as a 16-year-old, she’s part of the Vietnamese Student Association at her high school in Garden Grove and eager to preserve the culture and history ... the memory of Black April alive.

When it comes to the search for freedom in African American history, Ryan Coogler’s latest film transcends cinema to say: today is not unlike the realities of Black America during Jim Crow. Set in ...

The April 28 statement refers to reports that the Smithsonian removed the historic Greensboro, North Carolina, lunch counter and a stool from the National Museum of American History and the ...