Henry Louis Gates Jr. is an American historian, professor, television documentary host and filmmaker, and literary critic ...

Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.

Arkansas PBS, in collaboration with the University of Arkansas Humanities Center, will host a reception, free screening event ...

Fifty years ago today, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer brought viewers like you a novel way to watch news: a half-hour evening ...

A city mosque will kick off a five-day exhibition on the connection between Islam and Black history in the United States with a panel discussion at Morgan State University. The Muslim Community ...

As the government shutdown lingers, the impacts of the budget impasse continue to grow, with hundreds of thousands of federal workers missing paychecks and agencies closing and unstaffed. Now, the ...

Detroit — Sunlight glints off the signature round dome of the Charles H. Museum of African American History in Detroit's Midtown on a recent weekday, a reminder that even in changing weather and ...

Matthew Macfadyen is about to change the world in the official trailer for Netflix's historical thriller Death by Lightning. Created by Mike Makowsky based on Candice Millard's novel, Destiny of the ...

The prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is approximately two times higher in African Americans (AA) compared to white/European-ancestry (EA) individuals living in the U.S. Some of this is due to ...

The Springfield museum at the entrance to Oak Ridge Cemetery has reopened after a 16-month hiatus. One of the museum's new exhibits was created by a former Hollywood set designer. The museum's board ...

Guthrie grew up in a small town called Okemah in Oklahoma. It started as a farm town. Then, in 1920, a nearby discovery of oil transformed the sleepy community into an “oil boom” town seemingly ...

(RNS) — W. James Abbington Jr., an expert on Black religious music known for his editing, teaching and playing of congregational music, has died at the age of 65. GIA Publications, for whom he worked ...