Black artists, musicians, writers, and reformers flocked to the neighborhood of Harlem in the early 20th century, creating a ...

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

“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.” — Carter G.

A new exhibit at the Joplin History Museum is dedicated to Joplin native and African American poet, Langston Hughes. “He went ...

I began with a quote from Dr. Woodson because I want readers to know who he was and what motivated him to lay the groundwork for what would eventually become Black History Month, first celebrated ...

BALDWIN: When we talk about something like the New Negro movement and its small version known as the Harlem Renaissance, we can't talk about that without talking about the influence of Black ...

Immigrants have been a part of the foundation of what would be New York City, according to the state’s New York ...

After founding the Journal, Woodson decided to go further and start “Negro History Week” in 1926. He timed this for the ...

Black History Month, an annual observance recognized each February, first emerged in the U.S. in the early 20th century, ...