Decades-old artifacts related to slavery and civil rights are rotating out of exhibits at the African American History Museum ...

Hosted by the Weeksville Heritage Center, genealogist Nicka Sewell Smith will lead a four-part virtual workshop series ...

The world is still adjusting to the historic election of Pope Leo XIV—the first American Pope and a native of the Chicago ...

often-overlooked chapter of American history. Cuffeytown, also known as Long Ridge, was founded by free Black families in Chesapeake, Virginia, as early as 1778. Jordan Yowell explores his family ...

At a time when it is under scrutiny from the White House, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and ...

Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago, has been confirmed to have African American ancestry through Creole ...

Are you interested in starting your African American genealogy research but unsure of where to begin? Join the Juniel family, genealogists, and Acoma Gaither, Assistant Curator of Black History, for ...

Our opponents are trying to erase Black history, Black voices and Black lives," Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, executive director of the African American Policy Forum, one of the groups leading the ...