Jessica Phillips, CEO of Historic Richmond Town, imagines the Staten Island community becoming a living-history, open-air museum similar to Historic Richmond Town.

The Maryland Department of Juvenile Services was awarded a $200,000 grant to begin searching for the remains of hundreds of boys buried in the woods near the Cheltenham Youth Detention Center, with ...

Weeksville was the second-largest free Black community in the pre-Civil War era, and Mayor Mamdani wants to make sure you ...

Some considered this lost Harlem church, which was never exceptional esthetically, to have been of no importance.

The Natural State gets name-checked throughout the Oscar darling "Sinners." We reached out to local scholars to see just how ...

The initiative to protect Black religious institutions is led by the National Trust for Historic Preservation's African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.

Olayami Dabls founded the MBAD African Bead Museum in 1994 to reintroduce African culture and healing into the Detroit ...

Using the word “tribe” to describe societies in Africa can oversimplify the continent’s immense cultural, linguistic, and historical diversity because African communities are shaped by complex social ...

One of Sweet Auburn’s most storied buildings is officially getting the national spotlight. The restored Prince Hall Masonic Temple and Lodge, a longtime civil rights stronghold, has now been folded ...

Two trails, one in downtown Baton Rouge and one in BREC’s Mary J. Lands Park, tell stories of resilience, community, activism ...

Sports and history enthusiasts! There’s an exciting new exhibition at the Houston Freedmen's Town Visitor Center that explores resilience, community, and the role baseball played during segregation.

Pandas, think back to your favorite subject in school. Maybe it was English, science, math… or if you were feeling adventurous, geography. The subject itself might be easy to remember, but the actual ...