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It’s tempting to overcompensate for the absence of Black history by teaching only perfect, pristine, and pure histories.

Here’s what made these high school seniors sign up for an African American studies course—and what they’ve learned.

The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the ...

Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict ...

Malcolm X spent time as a teen living in Roxbury and it was when he served jail time in Massachusetts that he began his ...

Looking at our current situation it appears we have no champions for justice, no drum majors for peace, no prophets willing ...

Joe Biden "accomplished something that President Obama didn't do," 91-year-old Julius Garvey told Newsweek about his father's ...

Originally a small art gallery, the museum has grown into a crucial institution dedicated to preserving and telling the rich ...

The Patrick School, known for producing NBA stars like Kyrie Irving, has dealt with a condemned building, plummeting ...

If you don't really know why, a good starting point is the 1992 film starring Denzel Washington (Gladiator II). An epic in ...

This month, as they have for almost forty years, millions of Americans will celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ...