DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – The Springfield Museum of Art (SMOA) will highlight an exhibition on Black Life as Subject Matter soon. The opening reception will be on Feb. 1, and the exhibition will run until ...

For the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, African American activist and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois led the creation of over 60 charts, graphs, and maps that visualized data on the state of black ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black History Month arrives with extra weight in 2026. It marks 100 years since 1926, when historian Carter G. Woodson and his ...

(The Root) — The verdict in the George Zimmerman trial didn’t sadden me. What did was the reaction — largely among but not limited to African Americans — of outrage displayed on social media and in ...

For generations, Black artists have played a critical role in documenting Black life—often filling gaps left by traditional historical institutions that overlooked or erased Black experiences. Whether ...

On Saturday, February 28, under the theme of “A Century of Black History Commemorations,” several hundred people committed to the research, preservation and dissemination of information about Black ...

The 75,000 images chronicle ordinary Black life, capturing decades of Black weddings, graduations, and more. In Memphis, an archive of 75,000 photographs offers an intimate look at Black life in the ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday is not a commemoration; it is a summons. In “Why We Can’t Wait,” King warns that justice delayed corrodes democracy. Civil rights were never a demand — they were ...

In an era when fast-fashion labels are cranking out items at breakneck speed, some Black-owned brands are slowing things down instead. These designers are rooting their work in history, activism and ...