While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

After leading efforts to get the course approved in Douglas County, the teacher is now preparing to teach it, reviewing the ...

Beginning Feb. 1, schools, museums and communities across the nation will mark the start of Black History Month –- a ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece ...

New results from a national exam find that America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, has died at age 102.

In her new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, Perry explores blue as a symbol of both hope and melancholy throughout Black history ... addition of the blue note to the ...

For author Percival Everett, libraries have long been a source of knowledge and discovery and pleasure, even of the forbidden kind.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ... President Donald Trump begins his second term in office. The American leader has repeatedly said he wouldn’t have allowed ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Many U.S. adults are on board with ... a “national emergency at our southern border.” About 4 in 10 American adults support deporting all immigrants living in the U.S ...