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

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

The rich tradition of Black Marxist thought — one that includes W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, and Frantz Fanon, among ...

Hurston’s literature challenges students to think critically about gender, class, race, and cultural preservation. She ...

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.

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.

Everett gives James the gift of language, and James writes his account of his travels with a stolen pencil stub—one which ...

A scholar and researcher in African ... African and African American cultural productions, Eneh emphasized the transformative power of African storytelling. She noted that literature not only ...

“We Need New Names” is NoViolet Bulawayo’s 2013 debut novel about a young impoverished African girl who eventually moves to ...

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