This Black History Month, John Yang explores the origins of DEI in America for our… The story of Granny Hayden, a Black midwife who was born into slavery Mary Stepp Burnette Hayden was born into ...

Celebrate Black History Month with Smithsonian events, resources, exhibitions, and podcasts. The 2025 theme is "African Americans and Labor" with a focus on the various and profound ways that work of ...

Black History Month is celebrated each year in October ... He wrote about his experiences of slavery in 1789. Image caption, Mary Seacole, a British Jamaican woman, travelled to Crimea during ...