Add three more University of Virginia faculty members to the list of American ... Mitchell’s academic research centers on the powerful legacy of contemporary African American culture and the ...

both women and men, to go into space before I did. But there was resistance. In 1962, when Capt. Ed Dwight, an Air Force test pilot, was chosen as the first African-American astronaut trainee ...

Inspired by long-lost folk melodies, gospel, opera and bluegrass, the electrifying singer and banjo player gives fresh voice to old American traditions Justin Davidson Giddens with her beloved ...

At a time when it is under scrutiny from the White House, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is without its director, who stepped down last month.

A 12-foot-tall sculpture of a lady, perceived to be an African American woman has been erected at the center of Times Square. The sculpture titled Grounded in the Stars, was recently sighted by ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The first African American woman to serve as the United States Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman died at the age of 77 on Friday. As a Mobile native, family and friends in the ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National Museum of African American History and Culture a few ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The threat of changes to the African American museum has prompted strong ... National Council of Negro Women and the Leadership Coalition for Civil Rights.

According to USA Today, many eyes are on the future of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture (NMAAHC). “Museums in our nation’s capital should be places where individuals ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National African American ... of Negro Women said in a statement.

Thomas J Price's 12-foot sculpture of a Black woman in Times Square is inspiring online debates about race and representation ...

Two American women were arrested at a California immigration checkpoint after border patrol agents determined they were attempting to smuggle two children into the United States. The women were ...