Black History Month - Page 13

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. 

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.

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.

From Trump's blatant racism to the erasure of a beloved Black figure skater, this Black History Month has been a doozy.

Black music has always moved the culture. Without us, 85% of popular music, fashion, language, and mannerisms wouldn’t exist. The real story, though, isn’t just about the artists and tastemakers. It’s about ownership. Who controlled the masters? Who owned the publishing? Who built the infrastructure? For over a century, Black creatives have fought not just […]