Black History

Before Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and others raised the bar for what Black and female politicians could accomplish…

James Baldwin was one of the leading voices of the civil rights movement. The author was born in 1924 in…

For nearly three decades, educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune, often called the “First Lady of the Struggle,”…

As the Great Migration of African Americans made its way north, New York City’s Harlem neighborhood became a vibrant hotspot…

One of 17 children born to formerly enslaved people, Mary McLeod Bethune spent the first few years of her life picking cotton…

When Chadwick Boseman stepped into the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the first time for Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War in…

For the past 30 years, kids (and more than a few adults) around the world have busted out their Super…

For the last four and a half decades, every February has marked the celebration of Black History Month — an…

When James Cornish stumbled into the recently established Provident Hospital one summer night in 1893, he probably wasn’t thinking about…

For all his Enlightenment-influenced ideals, which manifested with the “all men are created equal” assertions of the Declaration of Independence,…