Black History Month was recognized nationally in 1976, when President Gerald Ford designated the month as a time for the ...

On the afternoon of February 1, 1960, four college freshmen walked up to the lunch counter of a Woolworth’s department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and changed the course of history. Joseph ...

Here’s what made these high school seniors sign up for an African American studies course—and what they’ve learned.

Joe Biden "accomplished something that President Obama didn't do," 91-year-old Julius Garvey told Newsweek about his father's ...

In a powerful response to the rising tide of racial violence targeting African American students, the Los Angeles ...

In his new book, Afro Sheen, the legendary founder of the Johnson Products Company chronicles his creation of a business empire that spanned the Jim Crow era, the Civil Rights movement and the rise of ...

A free symposium at the museum Feb. 15 will look at African American engagment in World War II and its place in social ...

Remembrances are happening January 31 and February 1, marking the 65th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins. The building ...

While African American women didn’t receive the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920 — giving the right to white women — African American women played integral roles from the ...

It’s the Isom Clemon Civil Rights Memorial Park located at 520 Dr. Martin Luther King Ave. City officials say more than $1.4 ...

President Joe Biden has spent his final full day in office in South Carolina, where he urged Americans to “keep the faith in ...