African-American innovators and visionaries have developed or contributed to many things that are commonplace today — some ...

Melvin Van Peebles, whose low-budget 1971 phenomenon, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” — an X-rated film about a Black ...

Thirteen-year-old writer Ariana Shaprow is displaying her poem “The Way It Should Be” at the Mosaic Children’s Museum in Woodland, California, celebrating the accomplishments of ...

Across the region, many events have been organized to honor Black History Month in 2025. Find a way to celebrate near you.

TAMPA, Fla. — Initially starting out as a week-long celebration back in 1926, Black History Month is held every February to ...

Throughout the month of February, the Las Vegas valley is coming together to honor and celebrate Black History. 8 News Now ...

Carole Boston Weatherford is the winner of the 2025 Children's Literature Legacy Award honoring an author or illustrator, ...

A memorials plaque of more than 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in World War I, in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. - Black South African ...

I went to my rest a sober man, content with the stable progression of elements I found to be more reliable than any prayer. Sleep came easily. I went deep, then deeper, until in a single instant I ...

By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include ... A ‘Renaissance’ in African Publishing: A new ecosystem of publishers, bookstores, literary magazines and ...

Yet today there are few African names in the global market for high-end spirits. Some entrepreneurs are trying to change that. Amma Mensah, the British-Ghanaian owner of Reign Rums, and Lola Pedro ...