Juneteenth celebrates a milestone in African American history. Do some, in and out of Washington, want to sweep that history under the rug?

Believe it or not, Juneteenth is still being celebrated on Delmarva. The Lewes African American Heritage Commission is ...

June marks African American Music Appreciation Month, which was created by the late former President Jimmy Carter in 1979 to ...

The African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey hosted a Juneteenth Bazaar and Show on Thursday at The Noyes Arts ...

The Austin African American Book Festival is back again for its 19th year this Saturday at the Carver Museum. Dr. Rosalind Oliphant, founder & director of the Festival, joined us, along with ...

Vermont becomes first U.S. territory to abolish slavery. By 1783, New Hampshire and Massachusetts had followed Vermont’s lead ...

See the furries at the annual Anthrocon Downtown, lace up your skates for a session at the Schenley Park Skating Rink or ...

Years after being catapulted to national fame in the U.S.S.R. as a child actor, he wrote about ideals of racial harmony and ...

In Lloyd Harbor, at a former plantation, visitors honored Jupiter Hammon, an enslaved man who lived and worked there in the ...

“Before anyone finds out how high they can climb, Nell picks up a seed,” begins the cumulative tale of Austinite Anne Wynter’s award-winning picture book, nell plants a tree. In Wynter’s story, Nell ...

My sense is that these poems might pick up someone’s spirit, they might deposit a resolution regarding some values,’ Forbes ...

Unlike African American poets, we undocumented poets do not hold centuries of literary tradition, with great names like Phillis Wheatley, Lawrence Dunbar, and Gwendolyn Brooks.