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If there is one lesson I have gleaned from Malcolm X, it is the importance of seeing oneself as a forever student.
Bob Marley was reaching the pinnacle of his career when he was diagnosed with a rare form of skin cancer.
How do you get a whole race of people to uplift themselves after years of persecution? This was the very question Colonel Allen Allensworth asked himself before he embarked on one of the most important journeys in African American history: to build the first Black self-sufficient town in California.
How did political parties come to be in the United States? Let's take a look back at their unique history.
Lula “Mae” Reeves, one of the first Black women in Philly to own her own business, created one-of-a-kind and custom hats
When you think of the first Irish people, you probably picture fair-skinned red heads…history and science says otherwise. Turns out, the first Irish were blue-eyed Black folks. Researchers say that the ancient genetics of Ireland reveal that the island’s earliest inhabitants— hunter-gatherers who arrived about 10,000 years ago (around 8000 BCE)—had dark skin and piercing […]
In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black Americans
Viewed through a more expansive lens, Belle da Costa Greene's passing can be seen as part of an exercise in self-invention.
Black History Month is that time of year when the world suddenly remembers that Black people exist. Okay, I’m joking—kind of. Let’s get into the makings and purpose of Black History Month, so that we can give it the appreciation and recognition it deserves. RELATED: 15 Things Invented By Black People How Black History Month Came […]
GOP lawmakers joined a hearing in a U.S. House education panel so they could resurrect their propaganda on critical race theory.
The university also set a school record with 2,369 new students in 2024-25, an increase of nearly 4% from last year.
In a city as vibrant and diverse as New York, libraries have long been pillars of the community, especially for Black children who not only have access to books and other resources, but computers and quiet spaces where they can do their homework.
