At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family line, and he takes readers along on the journey.

Melvin Van Peebles, whose low-budget 1971 phenomenon, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” — an X-rated film about a Black ...

Harris's photographs, which capture Black life in mid-20th-century America, are now the subject of a permanent exhibit at the ...

This Saturday, visit the Weaver Bolden Branch of the Tuscaloosa Public Library for its Annual Black History Event. Come ...

Great Migrations: A People on The Move is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, ...

Kraken guest services manager Patti Brinkley can likely beat you in a courtroom, a martial arts studio, skate figure eights ...

Black History Month honors the achievements and struggles of African Americans throughout U.S. history, and it’s a great time ...

One Sunday in May 1917, on the first day of services at the newly built First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Athens, the congregation celebrated with a processional and mortgage burning.