Hattie McDaniel became the first Black Oscar winner in 1940 for her portrayal of a …
In 1852, famed abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass told a large, mostly …
There is something so captivating about sinking into your seat at a theater and wat…
Marie Van Brittan Brown, born on January 7, 1922, was an African American nurse and…
Extremely rare footage from an 1898 silent film titled Something Good-Negro Kiss s…
America owes so much of its rich literary tradition to these three women: Maya Ange…
The musical genre of the blues has been around for as long as any of us can remembe…
Day time talk shows, a guilty pleasure for us all, has given rise to some of the mo…
Bessie Coleman was raised by a poor family in a time of discrimination and segregat…
Phillis Wheatley, known for her literature and poetry work, had quite an interestin…