I get chills recalling the sheer power of art that I felt in this room at the National Portrait Gallery, as if the genius loci of Washington, D.C. was standing next to me like a ghost.

The first African American museum has opened in Warren County, Virginia, established in honor of local activist James Wilson Kilby.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is helping families preserve film and photos many ...

Discover the National Museum of African American History and Culture's November programming, including exhibits on Black women activists and African American religion.

A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation's oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds ...

Hidden histories come to life in this sprawling show, which includes photos, films and interactive touch-screen oral ...

The 1898 Wilmington massacre left dozens of Black North Carolinians dead. Conspirators also forced the city's multiracial ...

For historians of slavery, the origins of the modern world and the origins of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade are one and the ...