In the ensuing months and years, arguments by African Americans who visited Lincoln—and the president’s willingness to listen—would change the course of history. While many historians and ...

A 1920s photo of two Black men embracing, part of a collection on homosexual African American men, was altered by social ...

To mark this month’s opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture ... out of more than 30 extended the franchise to black men. Iowa and Minnesota did so in 1868.

Black History Month wasn’t always a monthlong celebration. In February 1926, historian and author Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week. It was a weeklong celebration in an effort to teach ...

With each passing day the assault on all things Black increases. Ancient African proverbs offer wisdom that can give more weight to Black history lessons ... between African Americans and their ...

It seems like we’re headed in the direction where there’s even an attempt to deny that the institution of slavery even existed." ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is now the target of a decidedly anti-Black president ... future appropriations “recognize men as women in any respect,” and ...

Black jockeys from Kentucky Derby races past are immortalized in huge quilts meant to permanently stitch their place in ...

Radford, M.D., at Mayo Clinic studies the differences in dementia between Caucasians and African Americans to develop interventions.