The significance of African American literature has never been more profound. This is neither an imaginative nor ...

The Schomburg Center is celebrating its 100th anniversary while preserving more than 11 million items in the archive.

The once-popular idea of an African renaissance is now almost forgotten. The African renaissance first advanced by South Africa supposedly as a slogan leading its post-apartheid political and economic ...

As Black History Month arrives, the murals of iconic Graves County and African American artists Helen LaFrance and Ellis ...

Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why ...

Join art historian Jane Oneail for a presentation on “Rhythm and Hues: The Harlem Renaissance and Its Legacy” at 7 p.m. Feb.

Framingham's Fuller Middle School is named for a 20th century Black couple who were prominent in their respective fields ...

When African Americans left the rural South for the northern and western United States, what rituals and rations sustained ...

In the 1920s, the organ played a role in a celebration of Black achievement. With the teaching of that history now under ...

New York City is bringing out all the unique, informative, and inspiring events for this year's Black History Month.

Jones The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her unfinished novel has finally been published for the first time ...