Black history happens every day, and the stories from NPR listeners are good examples of that. From becoming the first Black ...

It is day 23 of Black History Month and here is your Black history fact of the day. On this day in 1929, the first African ...

Literary scholar Farah Jasmine Griffin discusses how Black yearning keeps surviving in the face of racist violence.

February is the birth month of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, two important American figures in Black history. The United States takes this month to recognize the often undiscussed ...