Dakar Harrigan and Marquis Brooks are breaking barriers in a community where there aren't many barbers who look like them.

Said was born Mohammed Ali ben Said around 1836 in Kuka (now called Kukawa) to a Kanuri father and a Mandara-Margi mother. He ...

There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...

Black History figures everyone should know about For too many years, history books have focused on the achievement of White ...

Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

Their history is Brooklyn’s history, spanning from the borough’s era as a slaveholding capital in New York and through the ...

As Kendrick Lamar’s much-anticipated performance at this year’s Super Bowl approaches, Kevin E G Perry rates the rapper’s ...

"It’s rough growing up when people keep telling you 'you don’t act Black' yet you don’t look white. It could be awkward going ...

In Arkansas, between 1868 and 1893, at least 87 Black men were elected to and served in the Arkansas General Assembly.

He sat with them for an hour in prayer. Then he pulled his gun out and started shooting. And today our national numbness is wrapped in a Confederate flag. The young man who killed nine members of ...

Uncover the nearly erased, but not forgotten, histories of these Black communities and their testament to resilience, from ...

Bowie State University, Maryland's oldest Historically Black College and University, got its start in Baltimore.