On August 3, the body of a 27-year-old man was found in Georgia’s Lake Lanier. Days earlier, he had disappeared and drowned while swimming. The week before, another man drowned in the lake, and a few ...

At a time when we're having a national discussion about how Black history fits into the American mosaic, we discovered that many stories of Black achievement are slipping away, going unpreserved for ...

Politically-motivated firings and increased executive branch scrutiny set “a dangerous precedent,” warns a former archivist ...

Great Migrations: A People on the Move explores the transformative impact of Black migration on American culture and society. From the waves of Black Americans to the North—and back South—over the ...

When Franklin Roosevelt told his economic advisers he was about to take the U.S. off the gold standard, they freaked out. The President was leading the country into “uncontrolled inflation and ...

Let the stirring words of Rosa Parks, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr. and other famous Black voices move you. February is Black History Month. The commemoration began nearly a hundred years ago ...