The DIA's Center for African American Art, established in 2000, organized the reinstallation. This marks the first phase of a larger renovation of the museum's second-floor North Wing.

ISLE OF PALMS, S.C (WCBD) — A historic milestone for the South Carolina Exchange Club happened Saturday as Michael Gaston has been sworn in as the organization’s first African American ...

The Cincinnati Scholarship Foundation hosted a special event to honor the legacy of Dr. O'Dell Moreno Owens, a renowned fertility doctor and Hamilton County's first African American coroner.

There’s no record the new pope ever identified as Black, and he may never have researched his family’s roots in New Orleans.

The Pendleton Foundation for Black History & Culture invites community members to learn about the Keese Barn and its neighborhood.

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The first African American woman to serve as the United States Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman died at the age of 77 on Friday.

Gertrude Theresa Hodges, the first African American to graduate Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, died March 28 at her East Baltimore home.

THIS MONTH, THE DEPUTY JEFFERSON BECAME THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN TO JOIN THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE SWAT TEAM. I JUST FINISHED TRAINING, GRADUATED BASIC TRAINING FOR SWAT.

The Grand Rapids Public Schools have renamed a school in honor of the district's first African-American teacher.

In 1952, Wilfred Duncan became the first African-American firefighter in Pasadena—and later, its first African-American captain.

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – A new design has been chosen to commemorate the first five African American students who desegregated East Tennessee State University (ETSU) in the late 1950s. Th… ...