Massachusetts’ Museum of African American History learned Wednesday night a three-year federal grant was terminated. Its leader worries their work is at risk after President Donald Trump issued an ...

FORT SMITH, Ark. — Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African American woman to travel to space, will visit Fort Smith on Wednesday, April 9. Dr. Jemison will present a talk at the University of ...

Gertrude Theresa Hodges, the first African American Johns Hopkins School of Nursing graduate, died of stroke complications March 28 at her East Baltimore home. She was 88. Mrs. Hodges also headed ...

Notes from Queen Elizabeth II, Cab Calloway, and Grace Kelly lay pressed between the yellowed pages. In 1976, Bailey became the first African American to receive the Screen Actors Guild Life ...

The order singles out for criticism the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the forthcoming Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum. The administration’s war on the ...

My grandchildren … they needed to have a breadth of knowledge for African-American history. That was my main thrust for becoming a tour guide. My granddaughter now has a better feel for who she ...

It is not as if Black women have forgotten the principles of linked fate, what the political scientist Michael Dawson described as African Americans’ tendency to keep in mind the consciousness ...

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Braiding is more than a hairstyle. For generations, African American hair braiding styles have held deep cultural significance, telling stories of survival, status and self-expression. What may ...

Case in point: Trump singled out three key institutions for criticism—the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the American Art Museum, and the forthcoming Women’s History Museum.

As Washington’s famed cherry blossoms burst into bloom on Saturday, the lobby of the National Museum of African American History and Culture bustled with visitors. Hundreds of out-of-town ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture was accused in the order of attempting to portray "American and Western culture as harmful." Smithsonian officials and several ...