It is day 23 of Black History Month and here is your Black history fact of the day. On this day in 1929 the first African American player on the New York Yankees was born. Elston Gene Howard was born ...

Literary scholar Farah Jasmine Griffin discusses how Black yearning keeps surviving in the face of racist violence.

The Muhammad Ali Center previously told The Courier Journal the cultural center doesn't have a statue of Ali out of respect ...

This year’s Black History Month theme is “African Americans and Labor,” focusing on the ways work impacts “the collective experiences of Black people,” according to the Association for the Study of ...

Black History Month is one of the most significant means a beautiful and noble people has to express and share themselves ...

When Grace Humphreys Rockafellow, 86,  was invited to participate in a reading of African American Literature, Renee Andrews, ...

Since 1976, every February has officially been designated as Black History Month. This February, stop by the library and give ...

Famous names and famous firsts make it into the history books. The ones who lead the marches and make the speeches to the faceless crowds. But it’s the faces in the crowd who make history. If you ask ...

Best, the director of elder services for the city of Lynn, has long been passionate about history and social services, ...

When Tarence Bailey Sr. received a formal memo from the Maryland National Guard declining to support a celebration for Frederick Douglass on Saturday, it felt personal.

Though he’s prohibiting government agencies from marking Black History Month, President Trump on Thursday held an event at ...