The Black Archives is holding an event in Miami that helps teach people tools to trace their family history. Local genealogists, including Patricia and Oscar Braynon, will provide tips to help ...

There is one human race, and until America confronts the living legacy of state sanctioned racism with honest education, ...

Storytelling has always been at the heart of African culture. Long before written records, African communities relied on oral ...

Friends of Geer Cemetery works to preserve the stories of people buried at the historically African American cemetery in ...

This issue of protecting Black cemeteries first came to popular attention in 1991, when the African Burial Ground in downtown ...

As a proud South African and American, I cherish South Africa’s vibrant people and hard-won freedoms. But my love for my ...

From grave robbing to road construction, a cemetery in Richmond, Va., reveals the long pattern of Black Americans burying ...

Nationally, the Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C., including the National Museum of African American History and ...

The installation, organized by the Center for African American Art, stands as a milestone in the museum’s evolving ...

The first of four parts Asheville’s Black population is disappearing faster than that of comparable cities in North Carolina, a trend that is accelerating and has transformed not only the makeup of ...

Nationally-recognized African American research experts Timothy Pinnick and Janis Forte as well as the African American ...

When Logan says funerals aren't fun, Kenny corrects him: "Black funerals are." As he prepares to attend his grandfather's in Douglas Lyons' comedy "Chicken & Biscuits," he enumerates just a few ...