As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

The Civil Rights-era ‘She Who Dared,’ likely the first professionally staged opera by Black women, premieres June 3 in ...

Some of the biggest players in helping getting rid of food deserts in the African American community are Black owned grocery stores. So, this coming holiday season or whenever you do your grocery ...

The U.S. Mint has issued new quarters celebrating the contributions of African American women. Ida B. Wells, Maya Angelou, Bessie Coleman, and Pauli Murray are featured.

Look where we are right now.” Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing “mere” about symbols.

Between the 17th and 19th centuries, enslaved Africans and African Americans in British North America and the United States staged hundreds of revolts. Fed by a longing for freedom and ...

AFRICAN AMERICANS. Cleveland's African American community is almost as old as the city itself. GEORGE PEAKE, the first Black settler, arrived in 1809 and by 1860 there were 799 Black people living in ...

Artists say African Americans are absent from historical art collections in some of the world's largest museums, galleries and major auctions. They insist that most of the paintings and ...

The Rev. Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. affirmed, “On behalf of the Black Press of America as the authentic voice of 50 million African Americans and millions more throughout the African diaspora ...

Read full article: Vehicle crash on I-81N in Roanoke County causing 4-mile backup Harrison Museum of African American Culture logo (Courtesy of HMOAAC) (HMOAAC2025) ROANOKE, Va. – The Harrison ...

It’s not about dolls. President Donald Trump has downplayed the financial impact of his trade policies on American consumers, suggesting that price increases would be minimal. “Maybe the ...