Celebrating Black History

Howard University has received a $2 million donation to digitize a major collection of Black newspaper archives in hopes of making it more broadly available to researchers and the general public.

The retired Black figure skater, the first woman to attempt a quad in Olympic competition, persevered against a culture that often didn’t know what to make of the explosive athlete

A foundation has given a $5 million boost to efforts to preserve a colonial-era schoolhouse where enslaved and free Black children were taught in Virginia.

These entrepreneurs started a side-hustle by dying tights in a small apartment. Now, the inclusive hosiery brand is in a Netflix show and the Olympic Games.

As a child, Sixto Cancel was in the foster care system and saw first hand that its priority is to protect kids from abuse — not to help them thrive. He even had to prove he was being abused with recordings to get back into the system at age 15. As an adult, Cancel founded Think of Us, which researches...

The first African American woman doctor to secure a medical patent did so in 1988 for laser cataract surgery. Learn more about the extraordinary life of Dr. Patricia Bath.

Out of 224 American athletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics, only a handful are athletes of color— but these five Olympic stars are making a difference, on and off the ice.

Black Olympic athletes are underrepresented at the Winter Olympics, but bobsled is opening doors for Black Olympians. Here’s how.

To this day, Karin Washington-Cohen thinks about the frustration her dad endured: Standout tailback at UCLA, rated “number one threat” in a poll conducted among other college players when he graduated All American in 1939.