A small Black community in Anne Arundel County goes back to the 18th century. Wilsontown, in Odenton, was where Quakers and ...
As rents rise and displacement grows, Harlem residents led their own project to map the neighborhood’s rich history.
Ottaway W. Gurley was an Arkansas man with a dream of success. The son of slaves, he would become a multi-millionaire and one ...
Black History figures everyone should know about For too many years, history books have focused on the achievement of White ...
Illinois struck down laws that kept free Black people from entering the state in 1865, a year after the Illinois Colored Convention of 1853, where men and women from across the country worked to ...
Black History Month started as "Negro History Week" in February 1926 as a way to chronicle the accomplishments of African ...
The journey of 1899 title winner Major Taylor is even more remarkable when you consider the kind of bike that got him there.