Visit historic places and surprising sites of Black culture in eight states with many family-friendly attractions for all ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

Performing arts group Namyanka will host a spiritual dance performance on Saturday to celebrate abolitionist Harriet Tubman.

Read highlights things to do, places to go and people to know in the Greater Lowell area. Have news to share? Send it to news ...

1940—Smokey Robinson is born William Robinson in Detroit, Mich. He formed “The Miracles” in 1955 while still in high school. With his voice and poetry of song, Robinson led The Miracles as the group ...

The shellfish was considered food for the poor before Emmanuel “Manno” Bernoon, an emancipated Black man, started serving ...

Today, it is crucial that we make a concerted effort to celebrate the positive contributions that four Black men have made to ...

During Black History Month, Rochester residents have a significant reason to celebrate. The city is recognized as one of the five key U.S. cities central to the abolition movement, alongside Boston, ...

Despite pushback in recent years, the Wisconsin State Assembly moved to recognize February as Black History Month in a legislative meeting Wednesday morning, according to Wisconsin Public Radio. 2025 ...

After years of disagreements and back and forth over who to honor, the Assembly passed a bill designating February 2025 as ...

These highways displaced many Black communities. Some Black activists are using mapping to do the opposite: highlight hidden parts of history. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division Joshua F.

Rosanna Vosburgh is a powerful portrait of upward mobility in Albany. She was an African American female born in 1800 in Kinderhook and enslaved to the Vosburghs, a Dutch immigrant family of ...