The Industrial Revolution transformed Valentine’s Day by mass-producing greeting cards, turning a personal tradition into a commercialized industry. It's a shift that not only changed the way emotions ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

“Cupid and Co.” was most likely the firm of Joseph Mansell, a lace-paper and stationary company that manufactured large numbers of valentines between the 1840s and 1860s – and also just happened to ...

Raul Lopez named his Luar fall 2025 collection Pato. In Spanish, pato means duck, as in the bird, but in some parts of Latin ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As I prepare to share some of Washington’s amazing African American History for Black History Month, I want to also share the legacy of my family’s academic ...

In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

Self-made African-American business tycoon Madame C.J. Walker stepped out of the past Monday to speak to students at High School West about how they can overcome hardship and be successful. “I am a ...

Whether you opt for a self-guided walking tour with a curated map of historically significant spots in hand or a concert or poetry reading ... 14th Heavy Artillery (Colored) to support the ...

Dr. Martha Bireda shares how the women in her life shaped her belief system counter to the stereotypes. Reflections of a Colored Girl is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App ...

"When I see the repetition of the blue, and particularly the repetition among Black women of the South, I think of it as a color that certainly had a kind of grace and elegance," she says. "It's ...

A Nigerian-American woman, Victoria Ogunremi, has returned the cash sum of $5,700 which she found in the toilet at her workplace in New Jersey, U.S.A. The gesture has been described as one of the ...