Givonna Joseph, a mezzo-soprano who founded Opera Créole with her daughter in 2011, first encountered Morgiane in 2014 when a ...

As a Black American, I always approach February’s annual celebration of Black History Month with pride and bewilderment.

Almost 125 years after Edmond Dédé’s death, his magnum opus “Morgiane,” perhaps the oldest existing opera by a Black American ...

No matter how many people scorn “sad beige,” neutrals remain hugely popular for a reason.

Black activists championed the idea of birthright citizenship long before it was introduced to the U.S. Constitution , ...

Only one copy of a single issue still exists. In fact, one of the only things known about the Messenger is that in 1921, the white-dominated Charlottesville Daily Progress reprinted a Messenger ...

Next month will mark the 50th anniversary of the permanent preservation of Arlington's oldest existing residential structure.

Donald Trump after his inaugural address as the 47th President of the United States raised a clenched fist yet again. It is a gesture Trump has deployed on many occasions – most memorably in the ...

Olivia Joseph can spot the stories in the stitches in their work as a quilt research fellow for the Mingei International ...

Four people were seriously injured in a crash that closed all lanes of west 19th Street between Milwaukee and Upland avenues Thursday evening in west Lubbock. The Lubbock Police Department’s ...

The Sussex pub in Hove is looking for answers after discovering a mysterious black and white photo on five people from the 1930s.

(Alyssa Schukar for The 19th) “What better day for this to occur than the King holiday, because that means now people get to see this major contrast ... who went on to become the country’s first Black ...