Black History Month is the annual celebration and recognition ... and the Mountaintop” received a Coretta Scott King Honor Medal for illustrations in 2019. Built in 1869, Beale Street Baptist ...

Black History Month wasn’t always a monthlong celebration. In February 1926, historian and author Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week. It was a weeklong celebration in an effort to teach ...

This illustration is of a Black Briton from Roman times known as “Ivory Bangle Lady”. The Ivory Bangle Lady's remains were discovered in 1901, buried near Sycamore Terrace, a residential ...