Known as the First International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World, the gathering featured parades in Harlem and had around 2,000 delegates representing over 20 countries. Subscribe to get ...

Black artists, musicians, writers, and reformers flocked to the neighborhood of Harlem in the early 20th century, creating a ...

Feb. 21, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Learn about jazz virtuoso and screen superstar Hazel Scott, the first Black American to have their own television show. An early civil rights pioneer, ...

A new exhibition of more than 200 photographs charts 300 years of image-making in the US, showing how the country's history ...

Sixty years to the week since Malcolm X came to Smethwick, a permanent reminder still remains in the form of a blue plaque in ...

What’s next: Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, said on Fox News yesterday that talks on phase two of ...

A New York Harlem Renaissance artist history forgot painted impressionism, Black African American life in the Southeast and ...

An avid collector of Black American memorabilia has assembled a traveling history museum that she takes to schools, churches ...

Chisholm was the first African American woman elected to Congress in 1968, and the first woman and African American to run ...

But all poetry, even funny poems and short poems for kids, has a common thread: The poets who write it are interpreters. They take an honest look at events and emotions and boil them down to some ...

New York City’s cultural amenities are many ... including a collection of vintage train cars spanning the 20th century—as well as more timely pieces, such as works from the MTA’s Arts ...

Architect Paul Rudolph designed the innovative 24-by-24-foot cube structure, which was built in 1953 on Sanibel Island, Florida, and is currently being featured in a New York City art show.