Researchers are working to preserve Black languages like African American English and Black American Sign Language and reduce stigma around them.

Colin Kaepernick, African art: AP African American studies reworked after controversy Florida education officials, saying the course "lacked educational value," rejected the class, but the course ...

A new research collaboration between Harvard University and Oxford University Press aims to compile the first fully-formed dictionary of African American English.

The African-American story lies at the very heart of our heritage. From the first English settlement, African slaves provided the primary workforce, and by 1708 they formed a majority of the non ...

The College Board released a revised curriculum of its Advanced Placement African American Studies course Wednesday, ahead of an expected Fall 2024 launch. The board, a non-profit that oversees AP ...

Fleming focused mostly on gospel music, one of five native genres of African American music; the others are blues, jazz, rhythm and blues (R&B) and hip-hop music (including rap and breakdancing), ...

But African American hair braiding styles stood — and still stand — as a direct challenge to those outdated norms. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Black is Beautiful movement sparked a renaissance ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Augustana University and The South Dakota African American History Museum are working together to preserve African American heritage sites in Sioux Falls.

At a time when it is under scrutiny from the White House, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is without its director, who stepped down last month.