Tameka Ellington is the guest curator of "RETOLD: African American Art and Folklore" at the Akron Art Museum. The exhibit features 74 works by 45 African American artists from across the country. When ...

At high schools across the United States, students can take for the first time an Advanced Placement course in African American studies that addresses “the vital contributions and experiences of ...

How do I describe my cultural identity: African American or American African? As someone grew up in a Congolese family in Nashville, Tennessee, this is a question I often asked myself. Despite being ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The City of Las Vegas unveiled a new series of artwork as part of their annual African American Heritage Exhibition on Thursday ahead of Black History Month. The exhibit is called ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Artwork at Perry Harvey Sr. Park that highlights the City of Tampa’s African American history was vandalized this week. Police believe the vandal committed the act early Tuesday ...

On the first day of one of the first AP African American Studies classes ever taught, Marlon Williams-Clark rattled off a list of Black luminaries to see how many his students had heard of. Only one ...

The Tampa Police Department has released a video in the search of those responsible for the vandalism of a public artwork depicting African American history, which the Florida city’s police chief is ...

Althea Gibson shattered barriers in tennis and beyond by becoming the first Black athlete to win major titles and blaze a path in professional golf and public service. Damion L. Thomas Althea Gibson, ...