Carol Gordon is an avid collector of Black American memorabilia and has assembled a traveling history museum that she takes ...

Live” turns 50 this year, and a monumental biography of the man who created it attests to his enduring role as America’s ...

The Negro Motorist Green Book was a must-have for Black travelers during the Jim Crow era and some Cincinnati businesses contributed to it.

Our columnist talks with one of Black History Month’s modern-day keepers about the work it takes to remember the past – and ...

The duo’s new album explores their relationship as a married couple and the harmonies that can unite even seemingly disparate sounds and styles.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to author and film critic Kenneth Turan about his new book, "Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg: The ...

"My goal is 80 to 90 percent Black-authored books." Niche Book Bar, Milwaukee's newest book store, focuses on celebrating Black literature.

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

This evening and early tonight will continue cloudy with isolated light showers, these turning wintry on the hills. The risk of showers will remain later on, but with a few clear breaks in the ...

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

Olivia Wolfgang-Smith’s second novel is about three characters with things to hide in turn-of-the-20th-century New York Two new books -- “I Dream of Joni” by Henry Alford and “Song So Wild ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Breathing Room” has a highly anticipated new book centered around a ... between the color blue and black history, from the indigo-dyed cloths of West ...