That's thanks to an oral history database called The HistoryMakers that contains more than 3,000 interviews with African Americans from ... who served as the first black mayor of New Orleans.

The Christmas cards—one of which now resides in the collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History ... Powers a framed set of three black-and-white images of Powers playing ...

Alexis Herman, the first Black U.S. Secretary of Labor, died Friday at the age of 77. Herman, a native of Mobile, served as the labor secretary in President Bill Clinton’s administration in 1997 until ...

Life in the 1920s was defined by many cultural, political, and economic developments. Jazz music and flapper fashion defined the era's sound and look. The Harlem Renaissance brought popularity to ...

In those five years, I read every book in the black school library. When I decided to speak, I had a lot to say.” Angelou often wrote in hotel rooms with a few essentials: a deck of cards ...

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and Moss describes it as “a church that is unashamedly Black and unapologetically Christian.” The African American museum, one of 21 Smithsonian museums, has also seen a recent shake-up in ...

while affirming the Black Church tradition of speaking out against injustice. The African American museum, one of 21 Smithsonian museums, has also seen a recent shake-up in leadership. Shanita ...