It’s February, and you know what that means? It’s Black History Month. Of course, every month qualifies because there’s ...

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

This year in State College, Mayor Ezra Nanes issued a proclamation honoring the struggles and accomplishments of African ...

Braceville is a small community with a lot of history. It produced famous athletes, such as boxer Earnie Shavers, who fought ...

Before Hattie McDaniel won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, she made ...

The Levy Senior Center Foundation is presenting Evanston’s Living History, a documentary by Evanston filmmaker Craig Dudnick. The film tells the story of ...

The Bush Center will host an event celebrating the legacy of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion next week, following the release of the Netflix film “The Six Triple Eight,” which highlights ...

The new film 'Nickel Boys' is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead and it focuses on the friendship between two African-American men at a reform school in Florida. Director ...

Telling Our Stories: Black American History Celebration, 2 to 5 p.m. Feb. 15. Chesapeake Public Libraries is hosting poet Sharran C. Taylor (aka Kween Yakini). The program will include original poetry ...

The director of Marvel’s Black Panther franchise dished on what to expect from his prestige horror starring long-time collaborator Michael B. Jordan ...

AFRICAN AMERICAN GENEALOGY CLASS: The Howland Library Branch, 9095 East Market St., will offer an African American Genealogy class 3 p.m. Tuesday for adults. Learn to trace your family history using ...

Kyla Pratt shut down the for this year's Pan African Film Festival on Feb. 4. Her glowing smile and gorgeous skin were on ...