At a time when anti-literacy laws prevented the vast majority of enslaved people from reading, a group of free Black New ...

A story. An imagined future. An “intellectual funhouse” in the words of Jonathan Michael Square. Square guest curated an exhibition at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library in Winterthur, DE ...

This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black Archive & Library at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Gilded Age was a period marked by rapid economic growth and prosperity. Soon after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the ...

A small painting bought for $10 at a thrift store in Glenside, a small suburban town outside of Philadelphia, has turned out to be a one-of-a-kind treasure representing the height of Black wealth in ...

Brennan, who serves as the curator of Photography, Prints & Photographs Division at the LOC, wrote that the collection "includes portraits of people who joined him and others working in the suffrage ...