After 155 years, the remains of Black New Orleanians, used in a racially based German experimentation, are being sent home.

More than a century ago, the skulls of 19 African Americans who lived and died in New Orleans were collected and sent to ...

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African ...

The Civil Rights-era ‘She Who Dared,’ likely the first professionally staged opera by Black women, premieres June 3 in ...

This Memorial Day, we’re remembering the legacy of the WWII era unit, the 6888 Central Postal Directory Battalion. It was the ...

Sarah Elisabeth Goode made history in 1885 when she became one of the first Black American women to earn a patent. She ...

There are a few powerful women behind Malcolm X’s movement who are responsible for the powerful leader and man he came to be.

Black women were virtually excluded from military service until the start of World War II, which prompted the creation of what came to be known as the Women's Army Corps (WAC). While the WAC opened up ...

The installation in Trinidad features the stories of four Black women who worked as domestic servants in the town between 1890 and 1920: Birdie Gordon, Laura Graham, Margaret South, and Sophie ...

In 1890, the National American Women’s Suffrage ... in 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment. However, despite Black women’s crucial involvement in the movement since the 1800s, they ...

the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) was instrumental in establishing a nationwide infrastructure for named memorialization to expand in the 1890s, all while Jim Crow laws increasingly ...

They wrote in the text overlay of the video: "POV [point of view]: You enter the floor that wasn't included in the listing of your 1890 property ... lived up here," a woman says in the ...