An exhibition at New York’s Scandinavia House features art and music by black Americans who moved to northern Europe in search of a safe haven from segregation and discrimination.

African Americans in the 20th Century,” at Scandinavia House through March 8. Organized by the National Nordic Museum in Seattle, where it had its debut last year, the exhibition features ...

Kameelah Martin, professor of African American Studies and English at the College of Charleston, received the 2024-25 US-UK Fulbright Global Challenges Teaching Award – Racial Justice for her course, ...

Rebecca has been with Southern Living since 2017 and enjoys the wide range of topics from shining a light on local heroes to providing ways to help our neighbors after disasters like tornadoes and ...

According to a press release, the 1850 U.S. Census shows that there were 90 free African Americans living in the Mahoning Valley with 37 of them living in Youngstown. By 1890, 648 African ...

WELL, A BIG MONTH AT THE BIRMINGHAM BIRMINGHAM THE BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE AS THEY CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH. THIS YEAR’S FOCUS FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH IS AFRICAN AMERICANS AND LABOR.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets with influential African American figures, like Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock and Maya Angelou, to piece together their genealogy and disclose captivating facts about ...

The presence of African Americans in Youngstown existed long before the American Civil War. According to the 1850 U.S. census, there were 90 free African Americans living in the Mahoning Valley. Of ...

In 1774, a Jewish man named Aaron Isaac came to Sweden from Germany. He became the first Jew that Sweden allowed to live in the country without converting. Isaac went on to found the first Jewish ...

From activists to entertainers to record-breaking athletes to a postal worker, we are shining a spotlight on the contributions of influential African Americans ... as his first live album, At ...

As housing becomes increasingly costly, over 1 million Americans live without running water, even in affluent cities, new research shows. A paper published in the journal Nature Cities documents ...