Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

More and more projects across Kentucky are uncovering Black history through historical documents, then putting them online ...

Valentine's cards and gifts have their roots in English traditions — but Americans have long embraced them for romantic partners and other loved ones.

There are countless examples of the ways that Black creativity in America has literally changed the world — from jazz, rock, ...

Benjamin Quarles, a celebrated historian at Morgan State University, faced an uphill battle to chronicle the Black experience ...

I remembered this experience vividly as I read Imani Perry’s new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My ...

In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

Walsall Council's local list describes the building as a 'Lofty 19th century public house with first floor clubroom. "Three storeys and three bays with a gabled centre bay. It is executed in red ...

If you’re familiar with 19th-century ceramics, you probably know about ironstone. It was first made by English potter Miles Mason, who sold Chinese export porcelain and decided to make his own ...

Discover the significant role of A. Philip Randolph and the Pullman porters in fighting economic discrimination. Learn about their impact on the labor movement and civil rights.

A new exhibition of more than 200 photographs charts 300 years of image-making in the US, showing how the country's history ...