In 2013, the widely acclaimed artist Carrie Mae Weems — a charismatic artist, activist and educator, known for installations, ...

Victoria Christopher, co-author of "The Personal Librarian," turns to Langston Hughes and other lights of the Harlem ...

Historian and author Carter G. Woodson is remembered as the “Father of Black History.” Read about his education, books, idea ...

This month, the books selected celebrate Black History Month as well as Presidents Day.

The president of Harvard made an unjust decision in 1890, against his own directives, that silently smoothed the path for multitudes of much worse injustices to come – injustices that tore through the ...

In marking 90 years since the publication of Du Bois’s groundbreaking work "Black Reconstruction," this year’s festival will ...

February is Black History Month and we've rounded up 120 inspiring Black History Month quotes from civil rights icons including Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois. These ...

Black History Month started as "Negro History Week" in February 1926 as a way to chronicle the accomplishments of African ...

A former archivist at Mary McLeod Bethune’s home in Washington, DC, recounts how the experience led her to see Bethune as a ...

He's also an e-reader and e-publishing expert as well as the author of the novels Knife Music, The Big Exit and Lucidity. All the titles are available as Kindle, iBooks, Kobo e-books and audiobooks.