Common Sense Media editors help you choose Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners. These award-winning books for kids and young adults show an appreciation of African American culture.

Charleston, South Carolina blends hands-on history, engaging museums, and beachside fun to surprise even the most reluctant ...

More than 100 years after his death, Robert Smalls — a Civil War hero, educator and South Carolina politician — will be ...

Dulaney has been a history professor for 50 years and is the former president for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. The museum’s Freedom School through The ...

Discover the forgotten story of L.S. Alexander Gumby, a pioneering gay Black intellectual who contributed to the Harlem Renaissance.

In the last decade, at least 20 states have passed laws or policies that restrict how history can be taught in schools. Since ...

DOVER — The Inner City Cultural League celebrated its 35th annual "Positively Dover" African American Festival on June 28. Starting with its grand processional across Legislative Mall, local ...

Americans are having fewer babies. These large families share how they’re making it work in this economy: Up at 4:45 a.m., driving a 12-passenger van, and no big vacations.

Gideon Jacobs has lived a life of the land. Farm-to-table was never a long sojourn for the barrel-chested Afrikaner, whose accent carries the history of his people. A base of Dutch, dashes of English, ...

Jacksonville students create educational materials on local African American history at the Summer Writing Institute.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. "A Century in the Making: The Journey ...

A state effort aims to find final resting spots for African American remains that were found in most cases by accident because of things like contruction projects and coastal erostion.