Celebrating Black History House tour event gives the community a chance to see African-American achievements throughout the ...

Wong is a history buff and tour guide. She takes people through Milwaukee's oldest cemetery, highlighting influential African Americans who were laid to rest there. "I have a keen interest in Black ...

In recognition of Black History Month, city leaders are urging customers to dine at Black-owned businesses across the city as part of<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

The Doolittle Community Center hosted its annual Good Time Fish Fry to kick off Black History Month celebrations. “We have so much fun here,” Romelda Williams, a member of ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

It’s remarkable that an artist whose work is so deeply political and who hasn’t chased pop stardom was picked to perform at ...

Abraham Lincoln, born in Kentucky, practiced law here but always went home to Springfield. Ulysses S. Grant, born in Ohio, never got closer than Galena, which at one time rivaled Chicago, with its ...

Prince Hall and the other Black Masons petitioned for a charter, and they were granted permission to organize African Lodge ...

Chef Yvette Zavala, owner of The Bistro on Sterling, is celebrating her one-year anniversary as part of Chicago’s Black ...

"Ann Arbor is known nationwide, but nobody knows that Ann Arbor had a Black community ... so I did this for you guys," the ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art will host the Black History Month tours from 6-7 p.m. every Wednesday and noon-1 p.m. Sundays ...

As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...