As plans to rebuild Interstate 375 in Detroit move forward, historians and residents are seeking to preserve the history of neighborhoods known as Black Bottom and Paradise Valley, whose ...

Formerly enslaved people would placed ads in newspapers hoping to find lost children, parents, spouses and siblings. Historian Judith Giesberg tells the stories of some of those families in a new ...

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The Philadelphia Orchestra recorded the symphonies of the early-twentieth-century Black composer Florence Price. The National Symphony did the same for the modernist George Walker. The ...

A Scottish Highland calf is zooming his way into America's heart, one hoof at a time. Hamish, an 8-week-old calf, is the newest celebrity at Nashville Zoo. Hamish, an 8-week-old calf Scottish Highland ...

Black holes are some of the most fascinating and mind-bending objects in the cosmos. The very thing that characterizes a black hole also makes it hard to study: its intense gravity. All the mass in a ...

The following is an excerpt from Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires, by Shomari Wills, which details the origins of Black Wall ...