A veteran activist of the Civil Rights Movement said he was notified by the Smithsonian Institution that items he loaned to the National Museum of African American ...

He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to ...

A Pennsylvania man who overcame drug abuse and poverty to earn a degree, told his story to a group of high school students ...

Civil Rights Act 1866 - All former slaves were to be citizens of the US and to have the same rights as white people.

Russell Jr., pioneering jurist and founding chairman of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum for Maryland African American History and Culture, died April 12, the AFRO has learned. He was 96 years old.

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National African American Museum of History and Culture a few ...