A massive oil painting featuring two of Congolese artist Sisqo Ndombe’s haunting “cracked people” welcomes visitors to the ...

Columbus sent Smyre to the Capitol back in 1974 where he quickly caught the eye of longtime House Speaker Tom Murphy, who ...

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

Black History Month honors the achievements and struggles of African Americans throughout U.S. history, and it’s a great time ...

Harris's photographs, which capture Black life in mid-20th-century America, are now the subject of a permanent exhibit at the ...

which balances out largely complimentary observations from the next generation of African-American musicians who were inspired by Stewart. Thompson further rounds out this rich docu-portrait with ...

The Mary S. Harrell Black Heritage Museum in New Smyrna Beach is dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of the city's historically Black Westside community.

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

The story of the late Geraldine “Jeri” Cousins Palmer, her parents, their relatives and neighbors will be on display at their ...

I served as the lead historian and researcher for an exhibition where three of these portraits are now on ... the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.