A veteran activist of the Civil Rights Movement said he was notified by the Smithsonian Institution that items he loaned to the National Museum of African American ...

The name Linda Lockhart may not be a familiar one beyond the journalism community. But she deserves to be remembered ...

He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to ...

This time, Turner added another stop on his long day's journey — the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, ...

Gertrude Theresa Hodges, the first African American Johns Hopkins School of Nursing graduate, died of stroke complications March 28 at her East Baltimore home. She was 88. Mrs. Hodges also headed ...

As president, he helped persuade companies like Estée Lauder and Ford to advertise in the pages of the first mass-circulation ...

Mr. Campbell’s criticism was authoritative in evaluation yet casual in expression. Or seemingly so: His prose was unfailingly ...

Russell Jr., pioneering jurist and founding chairman of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum for Maryland African American History and Culture, died April 12, the AFRO has learned. He was 96 years old.

From 1997 to 2001, Amb. Davis was the first African American director of the Foreign Service Institute, the State Department’s chief language and training school just across the Potomac River in ...

In 1970, she became the first African-American student to graduate from Lutheran High School South in Affton. She received a full scholarship from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and attended the ...

Praising her more than four decades of service and her distinction of becoming the first African American to hold the associate superintendent position in GPISD, Parra expressed sadness in his post.

This week, in a rare moment of bipartisan unity, Congress awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to the 6888th Central Postal ...