It was a wonder to see the sage, Nigerian Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka man the stage at the 6th ProvidusBank World Poetry Day Café, held on March 21 at Terra Kulture Arena in Lagos. The ...

Val Gray Ward was a force of nature – a groundbreaking actress and fearless matriarch of the Black Arts Movement. Founder of ...

Since 2013, Triad Cultural Arts has worked to preserve an architecturally significant shotgun house as a symbol of African ...

Long, Ph.D. More than 30 students from the Beginning Theatre Arts classes at Carver Nation and the Carver Drama Club ...

In homage to “Empress of the Blues” Bessie Smith, Mayfield delivered a performance of “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” that was as ...

Discover the often-overlooked contributions of Black women to the suffrage movement, highlighting their activism and efforts for equal rights.

Yusef Salaam addressed an intimate audience at Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.

In the Ancient Greek epic poem “The Odyssey,” Odysseus’ men strap him to the mast of the ship so he could hear the sirens’ ...

The African ... preserving the history and telling the story of the city’s African American community. “Except for here, it’s not really being told,” Bauman said as he looked over a collection of ...

Atlanta-born poet Georgia Douglas Johnson, whose parents were of African American ... had this short poem selected for inclusion in a landmark anthology of Black American poetry, Caroling Dusk ...

February is more than just Black History Month — it is a time to reflect on powerful events that have shaped not only African American history but the broader narrative of human rights and social ...

Holland High School held a poetry contest in honor of Black History Month. Sophomore Cherlande Stout won the contest with the poem "Rise Up." Holland Middle School also celebrated Black History ...