HBO's Gilded Age transforms period drama by exploring Black aristocracy in 1880s America through complex characters and authentic historical storytelling.

In 1888, Jackson Ward became home to the first chartered Black financial institution, established by William Washington Browne and his Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers. Later, in ...

The HBCUs came first, starting with Cheney University in Pennsylvania in 1837. Then came The University of the District of Columbia in 1851, Lincoln University -Pennsylvania in 1854, Wilberforce ...

Theatreworks will end its season with "Flyin' West," running through July 27 at the Ent Center for the Arts. The show follows ...

A Rhode Island landlord is the target of a RICO lawsuit filed by 12 current and former tenants and Reclaim RI.

AFRICAN AMERICANS. Cleveland's African American community is almost as old as the city itself. GEORGE PEAKE, the first Black settler, arrived in 1809 and by 1860 there were 799 Black people living in ...

When financier J.P. Morgan sought a librarian for his massive collection of books, his relative recommended a young woman who ...

Un/Bound: Free Black Virginians, 1619-1865,” tells stories from a variety of perspectives — personal, community and family.

American Western culture is rooted in the Black experience, no matter which way the history books try to spin it.

April Fools! Here are all the ways America tried to fool Black people, from stereotypical myths to unkept promises.

Black History Month: Reading baseball great Eddie Day broke game’s color barrier in the 1890s Day is considered one of the best players to have come out of Reading.

After briefly suspending its 1890 National Scholars Program last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reopened it and is accepting applications for student participation through March 15.