Black civil rights leaders used transportation as a means to challenge white supremacy, aiding movements for organized labor ...

The passing of celebrated Kenyan writer and scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on 28 May 2025 marks the end of a remarkable period in African literary history – the fabulous decades in the second half of the ...

UC Berkeley art museum to exhibit 20th century African American quilts Opening June 8, ‘Routed West’ expands on previous display of Black diaspora works from Second Great Migration period ...

African American leaders fought for integration rather than the development of separate Black institutions in the 19th century. The city's first permanent African American newspaper, the CLEVELAND ...

Get to know key leaders at some of East Austin's ... in the early 20th century when segregationist policies pushed non-white Austinites ... in reference to two common African American church ...

The Pacific Beach Club in Huntington Beach for Black families was set to welcome its members on Feb. 12, 1926, Abraham Lincoln's birthday. But it was burned down three weeks before its grand opening.

It was the first Black union to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor. Many scholars cite the important role that the Pullman porters played in the early 20th century.

Black labor leaders fought for workers ... When Nannie Helen Burroughs established the National Association of Wage Earners in the early 20th century, ... the month's theme is African American ...

Dexter Gordon and Slide Hampton’s jazz album “A Day in Copenhagen”—piped into the galleries—is the principal soundtrack for “Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century,” at ...

Black American and African faith leaders band together to ... Emeritus of Cape Town Desmond Tutu and Reverend Mpho Andrea Tutu appear on a panel during Shared Interest’s 20th Anniversary ...

The Whitney tells the American story through the genius of Alvin Ailey “Edges of Ailey” is a well-deserved canonization of one of the 20th century’s greatest dance artists.

Douglas County Schools approves plan to make AP African American Studies available to students 01:30. Moses said, "This really is just a class for everyone, it is not just for our students of ...