Brazilian artist Gustavo Nazareno left Minas Gerais for São Paulo because his aunt, a practitioner of the Afro-Brazilian ...

Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child from West Africa and sold into slavery in Boston. Despite systemic ...

Carnival celebrates vibrant global traditions, blending history, resistance, and cultural expression through music, dance, ...

In “The Maverick’s Museum,” Blake Gopnik presents the contradictory, intriguing, infuriating man behind the Barnes Collection ...

Richard Allen, born into slavery near Smyrna, rose to found the AME Church and promote rights for African Americans.

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Protests in Davenport about federal cuts, the opening of an African American museum in Waterloo, a Sioux City refugee ...

Veteran Opera Theatre St. Louis attendees have known Brownlee for decades; as a Gerdine Young Artist in 1999 and 2000, he ...

Martin Luther King III, the son of revered civil rights icons Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, directly ...

Renowned author Percival Everett spoke with the IUN community about his new novel, "James," a literary rebuttal to "Huckleberry Finn." ...

Justifiably or not, it is an “accepted fact” that Black Americans are the most “religious” racial/ethnic group in the US as defined by Pew Research Center statistics on self-identification of ...