The DIA’s collection of African American art includes approximately 700 works by noted artists Robert Seldon Duncanson, Richmond Barthe, Elizabeth Catlett, Edward Clark, Mavis Pusey, and more.

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

From DJ Kool Herc and The Last Poets to Prophets of Da City and Mode 9, here’s how African history has influenced hip-hop – and vice-versa – 50 years after the genre was born.

Browse our extensive directory of the best Black and African American Therapists, Black and African American Psychologists and Black and African American Counselors near you.

The study concluded that an African American born between 1960 and 1965 has, on average, 314 African ancestors and 51 European ancestors. For Noah Rosenberg, senior author of the study and a biology ...

AP African American Studies will be a class option for some students, on top of traditional AP subjects such as calculus, art history and computer science. The College Board, ...

O n 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 ...

African American studies will be available in US high schools as an Advanced Placement course for the first time, starting in the 2023-24 school year.

An African American museum is a good place to soak up some Black history. Celebrating Black history by visiting on these seven museums is one the Blackest things you could do for Black History ...

Large language models (LLMs) are becoming less overtly racist, but respond negatively to text in African American English. Such ‘covert’ racism could harm speakers of this dialect when LLMs ...

Proposed publicly by former Charleston mayor Joe Riley more than 20 years ago, and championed by Congressman Jim Clyburn, the nation’s second largest African American museum finally opened last ...

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.