Langston Hughes is known as the people’s poet. I would say Biggers is the people’s painter. The man and the work are one.” ...

At New York Fashion Week, designers met the moment with slick, straightforward, and slightly subversive armor.

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When the New York Evening Mirror published Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven ... and “The Black Cat” (1843). Still, it was this stylized and rhythmic ...

Phillis Wheatley was sold into slavery from the Gambia and became the first Black American woman and only the third American woman to publish a book of poetry ... of the most famous Black ...

In 1958, Williams chaired the Committee to Combat Racial Injustice, which organized to defend two Black boys, ages 7 and 9, ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators (and their students) are eager to learn more about underrepresented ...

Famous faces have gathered as musician Linda Nolan is laid to rest today (February 1) at St Paul's Church in Blackpool before ...

"Ask yourself who is the most famous Brummie of all time? I think it's Ozzy." Jim Simpson was the first manager of Black Sabbath and ... have a career that spanned poetry, literature, music ...

By 1960, the neighborhood was 60 percent black. Meanwhile, the Fillmore District in San Francisco became known as the “Harlem of the West,” boasting a famous music scene that featured such ...