The library, home to the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, will turn fifty years old in December.

Kansas City’s Black Archives faces funding impacts as DEI cuts continue. Learn why preserving Black history is vital amid ...

Huntingtonians were once again invited to explore the city's Black History guided by local author and educator, Cicero M.

Residents will have a chance to travel through Huntington's Black History Thursday, April 1, 2025, by boarding Trolley Tours ...

Black history was first published as “The Journal of Negro History” in 1916, in a townhouse in Washington when academic ...

For now, he stands alone in the moment — a performance that cements his place in G League playoff history.

John Mercer Langston be­comes the first African American elect­ed to public office when he wins the po­sition of clerk of Brownhelm Township, in Ohio. Though not well known today, Langston was one of ...

“But when you protest, protest as a team.” In 1926, Carter G. Woodson launched Negro History Week, later known as Black History Month. After the American Historical Association — which overlooked ...

Hansen’s disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today – and that’s partly thanks to a curious tree and the work of a pioneering young scientist in the 1920s. Centuries prior to her discovery, ...

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Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. President Trump has selected Sara Carter, a conservative journalist and Fox News contributor, as the nation’s next drug czar.

Kathy Volkmann, curator of artifacts for the Woodson History Center and its team decided they wanted to tell women's stories during this time frame. "We figured since it's 100 years since the 1920s we ...