The bold stage show '3 Summers of Lincoln' — starring Ivan Hernandez, Quentin Earl Darrington, Carmen Cusack and Saycon ...

When Tarence Bailey Sr. received a formal memo from the Maryland National Guard declining to support a celebration for Frederick Douglass on Saturday, it felt personal.

Chesnutt’s fiction, in novels such as “The Marrow of Tradition,” and his biography of Frederick Douglass, the first, explored the fraught history of the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras. Audre Lorde ...

Black historian Carter J. Woodson proposed a week to recognize the accomplishments of Black Americans, aligning it with the ...

Black History Month is one of the most significant means a beautiful and noble people has to express and share themselves ...

Benjamin Quarles, a celebrated historian at Morgan State University, faced an uphill battle to chronicle the Black experience ...

President Donald Trump welcomed attendees to the White House Thursday to celebrate Black History and announced the planned ...

Since 1976, every February has officially been designated as Black History Month. This February, stop by the library and give ...

Why is Black History Month in February? The commemoration of important Black Americans and events happens largely during the ...

This year’s Black History Month theme is “African Americans and Labor,” focusing on the ways work impacts “the collective experiences of Black people,” according to the Association for the Study of ...

From Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali to Colin Kaepernick, the achievements of Black athletes have had a role in advancing civil rights.