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Today in Detroit, more than 200 high school students will participate in what you might call a job fair like no other. It's a world-class design event called Conceived by offering 30 round tables led by black designers, on the themes of…

After being closed for most of the pandemic, the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum reopened on Wednesday. The museum opened in its original location in the old Carver Theater in 1967 with a mission to reach the local…

In the 1940s, a farm nestled beside the Patuxent River in Prince George's County, Maryland became an airfield that would open new doors for aspiring black pilots. This report is part of…

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Benjamin Melvin Berry smiles as he holds his smartphone pointing to a black-and-white photo.The photo features six young African American men dressed in perfectly pressed army uniforms. One is Berry smiling during a…

Many people in the United States know that the Jim Crow system of racial segregation reigned in the South between the end of Reconstruction and the successes of the black freedom struggle in the 1950s and 1960s. Some might even be at the…

AFRICA IS THE second largest continent in the world, yet often ignored except for crises and disease. European cartographers reduced the physical size of the continent on their maps; the residents were of interest primarily because of…

The mobile museum of NHL black hockey history celebrating the sport's African-American pioneers and current stars has arrived in the DC area for the weekend. The visit is free. The traveling museum is in Rockville on Friday…

A non-profit organization in Bastrop is working to transform a slice of the city's history that once represented segregation into one that symbolizes unity. The Emile Multicultural Center/Recreation Complex, a newly created non-profit…

As a new year begins (again), our reviews spotlight the television, movies, music, art, theater, dance, and comedy that promise welcome distraction.Marguerite LyonThe end of "Better Call Saul"I'll be sad forever when "You better call Saul"…

Civil rights activist and founder of Bethune-Cookman University, Mary McLeod Bethune, will soon make history. She will be the first black person to represent a state in the National Statuary Hall Collection at the United States Capitol in…

SAG HARBOR, NY - When Storm Ascher, 27, artist and founder of the Overlay pop-up gallery, moved here from Los Angeles in 2019, she was simultaneously struck by the warmth and acceptance of the community and by the fact that she was almost…

The Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum has a surprise gift for fans of local history and old photos depicting Wichita's past. Museum staff have been quietly working for about three years on a big 'heirloom' book, intended…

FAYETTEVILLE - A new online biography launched on Friday is a step toward adding historical context to a campus statue of former U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright of the University of Arkansas, announced Friday Fayetteville.Earlier this…

The Winchester area NAACP fully supports and approves the call by Public Defender Timothy S. Coyne of…

In the first of a two-part webinar series, the Commission on History, Race and the Way Forward discussed the original motivation for the…

A sculpture of Jackie Robinson is part of the sports exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on September 14, 2016, in Washington, DC On October 23, 1945, Robinson, the…

St. Pete's African-American Museum plans expansion Briona Arradondo Reports ST. PETERSBURG, Florida - The designs and specifications aim to expand a St. Petersburg museum into the premier historical museum of black history and…

It's an emotional monument to American misery, built on the site of the Lehman, Durr and Co. cotton warehouse along the Alabama River that was an epicenter of the slave trade in the 1850s.The new and expanded Legacy Museum created by the…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - An Indianapolis museum that documents the life and writings of novelist Kurt Vonnegut has been named Indiana's very first literary monument by a national group.The Literary Landmarks Association designation puts the…

A Louisiana Department of Education steering committee approved on Saturday a new version of the standards for Louisiana students learning social sciences, update content and timeline of what history is…

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - In 2018 Georgian artist Jerome Meadows was shortlisted for a formidable project: a public artwork commemorating black victims of the lynching for permanent display in a bustling neighborhood of Chattanooga, a…

CAPITOLA - The new curator of the Capitola Museum is perhaps a familiar face to people who find their roots, like her, in the old town of retirement. Deborah Osterberg grew up just above Capitola Village, attending elementary through high…

The minister mainly, by John Oliver Killens (Amistad). Unpublished for more than thirty years after the death of its author in 1987, this insane novel takes place in the imaginary African nation of Guanaya, where the discovery of mineral…

Visitors to downtown Annapolis will never again see City Dock filled with the hustle and bustle of an active maritime community: boatmen delivering their catch to packing stations from skipjack and buying boats, ships under repair by sea…

"Sam Gilliam: Selections" at the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida. On View presents images of remarkable exhibitions AN AWESOME SURVEY Sam gilliam at the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, was!-->…

This is an editorial by John Maclean, a retired US lawyer and administrative judge. It is native to the savannah.the Project to change the name of Place Calhoun has two components, both of which are problems. The first is that under the…

President Biden says he wants to invest extra $ 579 billion in highways, bridges, railways and alternative energies as part of its massive infrastructure renewal proposal. Here's where the president should start: in cities in the heart…

Subscribe to our Policy NewsletterNY for the latest coverage and to stay informed about the 2021 elections in your district and across New YorkA Ghanaian artist took to Times Square on June 25 to share his take on the experience of black…