Many a socialite visited Ann Lowe’s Gowns, a salon on Manhattan’s Lexington Avenue, in the 1950s. The daughter and granddaughter of African American seamstresses, Lowe designed the wedding dress worn ...

An African American museum is a good place to soak up some Black history. Celebrating Black history by visiting on these seven museums is one the Blackest things you could do for Black History Month.

African American history does not provide a great vantage point on the history of human flourishing. Instead, it is one of the most depressing subfields in American history—second perhaps only to ...

The next William & Mary theater season will mark the 60th anniversary of the first African American student to appear in a production, an important segment of a lecture being presented next week.

Black museums are more crucial than ever when it comes to teaching, learning and maintaining the authentic history of people of African descent. Institutions across the nation and beyond are working ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will publish a dynamic new book Sept. 17 tracing the history of sports through photographs from the turn of the 20th ...

The PBS program Antiques Roadshow sparked something in Dr. Lonnie Bunch III. The reality television show depicts dealers touring the country to give free appraisals of the objects people bring to them ...

Kevin Young, who has led the National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021, went on leave before the president criticized the institution in an executive order. By Graham Bowley ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Some reports and a civil rights leader say crucial artifacts and exhibits are being removed from the National Museum of African American History and Culture. It comes a ...

The closure comes more than a week after a winter storm blasted the nation's capital.