If ever a farm had secrets, Prospect Hill is the keeper of ghosts. The former Mississippi cotton plantation conceals one of ...

Malcolm X was immortalized in Spike Lee's biographical movie in 1992. The filmmaker told Newsweek why the life and message of the civil rights leader still resonates on the 100th anniversary of his ...

PJ, a cuckoo tagged in 2016 in King’s Forest, Suffolk, holds the record for the longest tracked bird by the project, at six ...

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"African American history has always suffered from neglect. But currently it is under attack. The assault comes from two ...

The city of Montevallo and the Montevallo Legacy Project celebrated the city’s rich history by dedicating three new markers on the African American Heritage Trail on Sunday, May 4.

The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but ...

The book is essentially about a success story, the realization of a dream Lonnie had after re-reading Albion Tourgee’s 1879 novel “A Fool’s Errand.” Lonnie said that he saw “the journey to build a ...

In 1873, a group of about 50 African Americans facing threats from the Ku Klux Klan in their hometown of Cross Anchor in ...

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture celebrates its 100th anniversary on Thursday with a new exhibition and concern among supporters about a right-wing assault on African American ...

The musical about the rise of three young women into stardom features the largest predominantly African-American cast in ...

As they always have, Black people are fighting back. In response to these assaults, leadership of Black Voters Matter and the Atlanta-based King Center have announced a new partnership designed to ...