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 ...