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Dr. John E. Fleming was involved in the creation of the first national African American museum in Ohio and later, Smithsonian's museum in Washington.

Harbor area. The museum’s 82,000-square-foot, five-story building — a study in black granite, looming windows, and bright-red accent panels — has won design awards and looms over a busy downtown ...

The Domini Hoskins Black History Museum & Learning Center in Redwood City showcases founder Carolyn Hoskins' extensive ...

The mural represents the history the African American community held from current and former residents of the North Side and ...

This ivory dress decorated with swirls of handmade fabric rose vines was designed by Ann Lowe. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Black ...

Samuel C. Still III has been a caretaker of his family’s history in New Jersey since he was in the single digits. Around the time he was eight or nine years old, Still started spending his summers ...

Greene County now has its first historical marker dedicated to an African American who served as one of the first Black ...

I recently interviewed Jarvis R. Givens, a professor of education and African and African American studies at Harvard University. His new book, I’ll Make Me a World: The 100-Year Journey of Black ...

In 1926, African American historian Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard Ph.D., issued a call for a weeklong celebration of African American history to acknowledge Black life and to bring to light ...