During slavery, African American hair braiding styles became a secret language. Enslaved people weren’t allowed to read or write ... paths and rivers into their children’s hair, mapping ...

Families and organizations came together at the Methodist Home Recreation Center on Saturday morning to bring diversity to ...

When Lewis Diuguid began working at The Kansas City Star as a reporter and photographer, the newsroom was a very different place. With only a few Black employees on staff, he found himself part of a ...

In 1868, he was a delegate to the South Carolina convention charged with writing a new state constitution, which guaranteed freedmen the right to vote and their children the promise of free public ...

(As part of our centennial coverage of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, read about efforts to recover ... Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National Museum of African American History and Culture a few ...

The Museum of African American History, which has locations in Boston and Nantucket, was notified about the cuts on Wednesday night, according to museum president and CEO Noelle Trent. Trent said ...

Two American women were arrested at a California immigration checkpoint after border patrol agents determined they were attempting to smuggle two children into the United States. The women were ...

Chairperson of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, Honorable Members of the Committee, State Party representatives, civil society organizations: Human Rights ...

During the journey, the child began to sing. “(Barnett) started to wonder, what are the chances that the Western world can see the joy and the beauty of the African child no matter what was ...