Don Cheadle is executive producing a project about Wall Street’s first Black millionaire.
Edmonia Lewis, the first Black sculptor, will be honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a forever stamp.
Russell Westbrook is creating a documentary about trailblazing Black basketball players who competed before the NBA's racial integration.
Zora Neale Hurston, the writer, folklorist, anthropologist and one of the most outstanding authors that emerged from the Harlem Renaissance, was born on Jan. 7, 1891. Her legacy lives on.
The space where Detroit’s first Black-owned bookstore lived has received a preservation grant from the National Park Service.
A new historically Black college will open in Detroit this year, becoming Michigan’s only HBCU.
Pioneering soul singer Sam Cooke, also dubbed the “King Of Soul,” was murdered under curious circumstances on December 11, 1964 -- a case which remains under heavy scrutiny to this day.
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture will make its exhibits available online.
Texas Republican state Rep. Matt Krause has compiled a list of 850 books he has identified as materials that "might make students feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress because of their race or sex," and requested that school districts report possessing any books from the list.
October marks the start of the country's month-long Black History celebration that commemorates the achievements of Black British and Afro-Caribbean people throughout the UK.
City schools Chancellor Meisha Ross-Porter introduced the new Black studies curriculum Wednesday at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Manhattan.
