Seven Black women, including Ella Baker, Callie Guy House, Mary Ellen Pleasant, Josephine Baker, Dr. Mae Jemison, Wangari ...

Abraham Peyton Skipwith died in 1799 and left his wife the kind of estate that befits a city founding father: horse and buggy ...

Trump is not an American monarch. Nor is he an American dictator. Nonetheless, he is displaying blatant signs of being an ...

Closed for years, Carter G. Woodson's home is scheduled to reopen in 2026, the centennial of Black History Month.

The president wants the museums to mirror U.S. pride, power and accomplishment without all the darkness, and threatened to ...

Discover the legacy and impact of D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton as she fights for D.C. home rule and statehood, despite facing opposition.

Gouverneur Morris wrote the preamble to the Constitution and shaped the future of the nascent United States. Later in life, ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the Campfire music fest and circus of the 7 Fingers returns, the Feast of Saints Cosmas & Damian turns 100 and Side Quest’s bookstore ...

With a garland of white flowers in front of him, a lone rower kneeling in a wooden canoe glided toward the DuSable Bridge docks. After stilling his vessel, two men on the Riverwalk helped him hoist ...

President Donald Trump wildly claimed Friday that “African-American ladies, beautiful ladies” in Chicago are begging him to stage a D.C.-style crime crackdown in the Windy City. Speaking from the Oval ...

This is not just about displays in the Smithsonian. America will never move forward, nor heal, as a society of diverse people ...

The lower level of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is a somber feat of truth-telling. It begins with the origins of human bondage in the Americas with the ...