This March marks the one-hundredth anniversary of Flannery O’Connor’s birth, and between Savannah and Milledgeville, ...

Since their founding in 1990, African American Read-Ins have become a Black History Month tradition at school and community gatherings nationwide.

If you want to celebrate Black History Month by reading newly released Black authors, these recommendations span sci-fi to ...

Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why ...

Issued on the 90th anniversary of Elvis’s birth on Jan. 8, Preston Lauterbach’s “Before Elvis: The African Americans Who Made ...

Valentine’s Day, President’s Day, the Super Bowl, and Black History Month. The latter has become synonymous with Dr. King, ...

Zora Neale Hurston's work didn't have the literary appreciation it now has until more than 15 years after her death in 1960.

Called “Black Memorabilia” and “Black Americana” at times, blackface characters and apparel have had a long run in America. Now, the African American Museum is confronting their legacy head-on.

It can be argued that even before the Harlem Renaissance, the concept of Black intellectualism was born right here in Atlanta.

Renowned horror author Stephen King has shared his top ten favorite books of all time, which are a mix of classics and lesser ...

Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

Enslaved griots were the originators of the tales of Bre’r Rabbit, sharing adapted West African fables after long days working. "This is Black history," says one historian.