LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Thirty-one quilts hang like tapestries at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, weaving history with art. Each shows a Black jockey wearing the silks they had in life.

Amherst was known for its diverse student population. Now it is trying to save that legacy without violating the law.

Historical interpreter Joe Palumbo shares the powerful legacy of Caesar Robbins, an enslaved man who fought in the American ...

Denton’s “Free Colored School” organized with a school board in Quakertown in 1866, one year after the Civil War ended.

Don’t Forget to Remember (Me)” by Nekisha Durrett is a landscaping monument challenging the college’s racially exclusionary ...

From Birmingham to St. Louis, Black tailors have been keeping dandyism alive for decades. Ahead of The Metropolitan Museum of ...

What makes 'Friday' special in the pantheon of Black cinema was that it was one of the first "hood" films of its kind in the ...

On a Tuesday afternoon in 1950, April 25, in a board room jammed with owners and coaches of the fledgling league’s 12 (soon to be 11) teams, the Boston Celtics’ Walter Brown called out a name in the ...

William Harvey Carney actions amid some of the most intense combat of the Civil War would earn him the respect of his fellow ...

Historians around the state are revisiting the nation's origin story with fresh eyes, centering on communities that have ...

Despite challenges that are both personal and systemic, Black cowboys and farmers across north central Florida continue to ...