A young man comforts his friend after taking a tour at the new African American Museum of History and Culture in Washington, D.C., during the opening weekend of the museum.

Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the Pentagon to go light on commemorating Juneteenth, the holiday marking the end of slavery.

Dating back to 1867, when the Freedmen’s Bureau organized the first parade, picnic, and festival in Austin, there has been a celebration of Juneteenth in the historically African American Eastside ...

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“What the book shows us is a decade-by-decade fight for something better,” Wexler, the Charles H. Farnam Professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale, said. “And ...

Harvard University will relinquish photographs of enslaved people to the International African American Museum (IAAM) in Charleston, S.C., in a settlement reached on Wednesday, May 28.

As Genessa Patterson read names of black soldiers buried inside Locust Hill African American Cemetery, members of her JROTC organization pushed flags into the earth as markers of memorialization.

The South African photographer, one of the “born free” generation, was raised in the township of Katlehong in the years that followed his country’s first democratic elections.

The African American history museum is singled out in Trump's order, putting it in the spotlight, despite its millions of visitors. During his first term , Trump was one of them.

Massachusetts’ Museum of African American History learned Wednesday night a three-year federal grant was terminated. Its leader worries their work is at risk after President Donald Trump issued an ...

A new book will focus on South Carolina's first African American female physician. Authors Dr. Walter B. Curry, Beverly Aiken-Muhammad and Anusha Ghosh present the narrative of Dr. Matilda Evans ...