In the American West, an increasing number of women are filling wrangling roles—and leading the ranches that hire them.

Ottaway W. Gurley was an Arkansas man with a dream of success. The son of slaves, he would become a multi-millionaire and one ...

Henry Brown escapes slavery by mailing himself in a small wooden box to a free state. But that’s less than half his story. In ...

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History has named the theme for this Black History Month.

A small Black community in Anne Arundel County goes back to the 18th century. Wilsontown, in Odenton, was where Quakers and ...

We talked with filmmakers and a historian about the tragedy in Wilmington in 1898, who say it's important to look back and ...

We are highlighting the history of African Americans in Colorado and how they shaped our past. We looked at the city's ...

Beginning Feb. 1, schools, museums and communities across the nation will mark the start of Black History Month –- a ...

Mother Henriette Delille founded the Sisters of the Holy Family, a U.S. congregation of black sisters that cared for the poor ...

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 ...

Edmond Dédé composed Morgiane 138 years ago, but his racial identity prevented the opera from receiving proper staging.

Black History figures everyone should know about For too many years, history books have focused on the achievement of White ...