On Feb. 4, 1864, Frederick Douglass visited Newtown, and spoke at Newtown Hall, now known as Newtown Theatre. On Feb. 4, 2025 – exactly 161 years later – the theater will welcome nationally acclaimed ...

Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why ...

A showcase of teens’ talent and creativity includes flower silhouettes, neon acrylic artwork inspired by the artist Derrick ...

Today, the AJC is marking the 10th anniversary of our acclaimed Black History Month series with "Atlanta Unveiled: How African Americans Shaped Our City." ...

In a short yet prolific life, Paul Laurence Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black Americans at the turn of the 20th century.

Who Was Carter G. Woodson? K nown as the “Father of Black History,” Carter G. Woodson dedicated his career to the field of African American history and lobbied ext ...

This year's Black History Month theme is "African Americans and Labor" focusing on the ways work impacts "the collective ...

A follower of Emerson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson became a passionate abolitionist and supporter of John Brown.

In The Unseen Truth, Sarah Lewis examines how an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries ...

The Advocate highlights social inequality through original stories and opinions, and content generated by fellow NNPA and ...

Author Sara Catterall’s rigorously researched, new historical biography “Amelia Bloomer ... Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frederick Douglass, would sometimes be allies and sometimes ...