During the Jim Crow era, Black tourists to Maine found recreational spaces where they were welcomed, not shunned.

Issued on the 90th anniversary of Elvis’s birth on Jan. 8, Preston Lauterbach’s “Before Elvis: The African Americans Who Made ...

Our favorite books by Black authors Growing up as a young Black girl in the South, I saw positive representations of Black ...

Epstein’s “little black book” contains entries of high-profile figures. A copy of the contacts book was first published in ...

Meet a blind girl on a mission to save the world, fasten your seatbelts for the ride of a lifetime, wrap up warm for a ...

The late jazz composer and bandleader Sun Ra still “visits” his sax player from the great beyond. Their cosmic mission ...

A bookstore and comics shop in Chestnut Hill has on display a 40-year-old Sun-Man action figure on loan from the Philly Doll Museum collection. The figurine will be there through Black History Month ...

Zora Neale Hurston's work didn't have the literary appreciation it now has until more than 15 years after her death in 1960.

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum celebrated the legacy of incarcerated Nashville soul pioneers Johnny Bragg and The Prisonaires.

Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share Antonin Fajkus ... The family cut into a cake decorated in red, white and blue. On a table lay black-and-white photographs of a young Fajkus enjoying a swim, practicing ...