Maryland archaeologists prepare to excavate a Dorchester County site linked to Jacob Jackson, who aided Harriet Tubman’s ...

Maryland advocates, conservationists and museum leaders said they will continue working to preserve the state’s Black history ...

For Qiana McNary, vocalist and leader of the eight-piece ensemble The McNary Experience, honoring Aretha Franklin felt like a natural, if daunting, choice ...

Soaring Heights Elementary School in Joplin, Mo. is featuring the Courage Café, a special project that highlights black historical figures, to help students learn about Black History Month.

The quilts of Harriet Powers, born into slavery, are being memorialized with “Forever” stamps as a ...

Maryland state archaeologists are surveying a swampy stretch of Dorchester County land believed to be the 19th-century homestead of Jacob Jackson, a free Black man who played a key role in helping ...

Mychal the Librarian is a librarian who spreads his love of libraries to millions of fans on social media. His mantra is ...

A Pulitzer-Prize winning author spoke in Binghamton to honor a civil rights icon. Historian and Author Edda Fields-Black wrote Combee, a book about Harriet Tubman’s ...

I wanted my children to understand that Black history is not just something that exists in books, or that involves only the major figures they learn about in school: Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick ...

Edda Fields-Black highlighted Tubman’s role in the June 1863 Combahee River Raid in South Carolina, where Tubman helped liberate more than 700 enslaved people from rice plantations.

Inside the auditorium of a San Francisco Victorian home-turned music school, Marcus Shelby plucked an upright bass, its ...

A large crowd gathered to hear a presentation from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black. She talked about ...