A funeral service is in progress for civil rights activist Ruth Ann Butler who died on Jan. 15. Butler, 81, was a teacher ...

Stewart Universal Presentation banjo, included in the research files of the Old Town School of Folk Music Banjo Exhibition ...

Richmond’s first African American mayor Henry Marsh III died at 91 years old on Friday. “Mr. Marsh is a legitimate hero,” ...

Henry L. Marsh III, the first Black mayor of Richmond and a figure who embodied the rise of African American power in the ...

Joyce Grant (Robinson) was born on Aug. 5, 1940, at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, to Naomi (Virgil) and John Henry Robinson.

Carson held a memorial tribute for Gilbert D. Smith, a founder of the city and its first African American mayor, on Friday, ...

The Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, and the Maryland Historical Trust have awarded $5 million in grants to 31 organizations, according to a news release. The African ...

He is the longest-serving senior pastor in the history of a church that says it is the oldest African American Baptist church in Phoenix. "God be praised for inspiring me to unapologetically and ...

We lost some entertainment giants in 2024. Among the big-screen legends who died during the past 12 months were Donald Sutherland, James Earl Jones, Maggie Smith, Carl Weathers, Shelley Duvall ...

Dr. Charles McIntosh, the first African American physician in Jacksonville to practice pediatric medicine, will receive OneJax's 2025 life achievement award. Now 97 and retired, McIntosh was also ...

The offer is valid for entry to the International African American Museum and the Gibbes Museum of Art. The company's Museums on Us program is nationwide with more than 225 cultural institution ...

“It just feels good to be, to have a connection to an African country as an African-American, as a Black American, right? Because back in America, we don’t have anything to trace our roots to ...