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Brown, Canada's first known Black woman artist, is finally getting her due with a museum show in her native Nova Scotia.
We spoke with the scholar about Black in Blues, a poetic exploration of the relationship between the color blue and Black people.
Explore the revolutionary act of saving money and building generational wealth by African American ancestors. Discover their stories of freedom and resistance.
“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.
A Black sailor who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor was finally laid to rest in his home state of North Carolina, nearly 84 ...
Black regiments led an as­sault on and eventually captured a key Southern fort helping bring the Civil War to an end. The ...
April 9, the day that the American Civil War ended in 1865, should be a national holiday celebrating the defeat of the Confederacy, the end of slavery, and the triumph of liberty.
Discover the history of Black-owned banks and why buying Black isn’t enough without access to capital, credit, and Black ...
There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...
After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in obscurity and was buried without a headstone ...
But her legacy still prompts conversations about the marginalization of women and people of color in science today ... is minimally contagious. But in 1865, the fear and stigma associated with leprosy ...
The Hurun Rich List named Elon Musk as the richest person in the world in 2025. Musk has been claiming the number one spot on this list for four years since 2022, after dethroning Amazon's founder, ...