He founded the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church there in 1794. Our mission is to empower people to create a just and compassionate future by exploring, preserving, and sharing the complexity ...

Dr. Frances “Toni” Draper (left), AFRO American Newspapers CEO and publisher and great-granddaughter of the AFRO founder, takes photos on the land where the AFRO was born with Savannah Wood ...

John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they created a platform to offer images and stories of hope to advance ...

The African American Museum in Philadelphia will be hosting an insightful event this month that explores the powerful ...

Hanson, Jr. spotlights the life and legacy of the late Julius Whittier, the first African American football scholarship recipient and letterman at the University of Texas at Austin, with insights ...

the new venue will have exhibits and a barbecue bean-themed ball pit play area for kids Sarah Kuta A new book from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture shows ...

Visitors were encouraged to bring in photos and documents to be added to the museum's archives ...

Maryland State Senator Cory McCray, Baltimore City, gives remarks. The Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum held a renaming ...

People are asked to bring up to five photographs to the museum, in physical or digital format, to contribute to the project. The photos will be scanned and returned immediately.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - It’s been two years since Nacogdoches resident Wyatt Ordway and his wife Carol took the restoration of the Old North Church Afro-American Cemetery into their own hands.

Bettmann Archive/Getty Images The book thus shuttles back ... Barbara Arneil’s chapter on “African-American Utopian Colonies” (in her 2017 monograph “Domestic Colonies”) gets name ...

The Amala dancers perform during the Ambatana Lounge Grand Reopening in the basement of South Quad Tuesday evening. Ava Farah/Daily. Buy this photo. Editor’s Note: Tomilade Akinyelu is a current Daily ...