A mentoring program for Black girls and young women takes participants on a 14-day tour to learn about Black history, the ...

Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...

The Gibbes Museum of Art, a beacon for the arts in the American South since its establishment in 1858, announces the world ...

Book Club Picks for Kids. Last updated: October 8, 2021 by Common Sense Media. Looking for a book to jump-start discussion with your tweens and teens? Or something you could use for a kid-friendly ...

When we retreat from reasoned, evidence-based scholarship on important subjects like science or history, the online fever ...

In the summer, you can read books in a hammock, you can read them by the sea, you can read them on your porch, you can read ...

Harriet Tubman portrayal comes to Edwardsville community center ...

Juneteenth is an important holiday for all Americans as it commemorates the day, June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers arrived ...

Dion Banks has written a children's book about a Black superhero who fights slavery titled “Kofi the Wind Whisperer: A Hero’s ...

Breathing is essential; we cannot live without it. So, too, is reading essential for a democracy; a democracy cannot survive without an informed citizenry.

Colorful children's picture books, gripping historical fiction and more are on our must-read list this Juneteenth ...

Several events in Utica, Rome and Petersboro over four days will celebrate Black history, art and music, and the area's ties ...