The Revs. King James Underwood, Evelyn Burnett Underwood and Herbert "Hub" Burnett sat down for a Black History Month-themed chat, with Hub playing interviewer.

Wednesday, December 21, 1877, a group of men from Montague pooled their resources and formed a “Partnership Association ...

While statistics may give the impression that Black people have no significant place in America’s wine history, it wouldn't ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we ...

Warren Clay Coleman was considered “the richest Black man in America” in 1900 by opening the first Black-owned textile mill ...

Belle da Costa Greene, who was JP Morgan’s librarian, became a lively fixture at Gilded Age mansions, country retreats, ...

Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

This is the third in a series of columns about Black history as the nation observes Black History Month. The slaves who ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

Ringgold’s painting was not. It was Barbara Drummond, a correctional officer and a former volunteer at the Schomburg Center ...

But Trayvon will forever remain 17 because he was a Black teenager ... about the white men who tortured, beat and shot Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy, then tried to hide their barbarity by tying his ...

Shutterstock Walking the Mississippi Civil Rights Trail Mississippi was one of the epicenters of the civil rights struggle in ...