Black History Month - Page 12
In commemorating the birthday of political activist Marcus Garvey, we also look at the influence of his red, green & black Pan-African Flag.
The exhibit, which opened in 2010, honors the lives of the nine enslaved people held there who were owned as property by President George Washington.
Civil rights activist Medgar Evers gave a televised speech in 1963 on the local station WLBT, speaking out against segregation in Mississippi.Â
On what would have been Assata Shakur’s 79th birthday, the Assata Shakur Memorial Committee launches a new digital archive to honor the legendary freedom fighter.
National Watermelon Month celebrates a refreshing treat, but the history of the popular fruit reveals how a symbol of Black liberation and economic success was transformed into a racist caricature.
After the weather took a turn during their display of white patriot pride, MAGA had to take refuge inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Cardi B praises Black Americans' fight for equality, says it enabled immigrant communities like hers to thrive in the US.
In 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, Black people in Galveston, Texas were finally liberated.
The GOP's complex relationship with Black Americans, from early civil rights to recent controversies over race and identity.
African American women overcome segregation, build golf club to play, and empower next generation
Former inmate Kerwin Pittman buys prison, transforming it into a transitional housing and workforce development hub for the formerly incarcerated.
With the recent success of rising rock band The Paradox, we looked back at the Black pioneers of alternative music who helped pave the way.