Along with writing Black histories, antebellum Black scholars north of slavery started observing the milestones in the struggle of people of African descent to gain their freedom and equality.

2026 Black History Month Theme - “A Century of Black History Commemorations” Each year a theme is selected by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History to …

On August 28, 1963, over 250,000 men, women, and children of various classes, ethnicities, backgrounds, and religions beliefs journeyed to Washington D.C. to march for civil rights.

Civil War as Black communities fought to thrive under Jim Crow laws. Since white businesses would not serve Black customers, Black Americans increasingly founded their own busin

By recognizing the powerful role of societal forces and neighborhood conditions, Centering Black Mothers in California provides an expansive view of the health of Black mothers and infants in …

Artistic and cultural movements such as the New Negro, Black Arts, Black Renaissance, hip-hop, and Afrofuturism, have been led by people of African descent and set the standard for popular …

The 2025 Black History Month theme, African Americans and Labor, focuses on the various and profound ways that work and working of all kinds – free and unfree, skilled, and unskilled, …