In 1891, the British made contact with the Akwaete people, only to mysteriously leave the area in 1902. Why?

Those involved in the Underground Railroad had to use carefully coded signals to get enslaved people to freedom.

Read the history of how this seed native to Western Africa has taken over the beauty world.

The history of many African beauty products.

In the mid-twentieth-century American South, Black women had limited access to medical services and maternal care. Many gave birth at...

Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), was a Black and enslaved poet who lived in the American Colonies during the Revolutionary War. Through her...

Icon of Arctic Explorer, Matthew A. Henson, depicting a person in a winter parka.

Before Rosa Parks, a Woman Refused to Give Up Her Seat In 1955, Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery,...