Over the next four weeks, the D.C. area comes alive with events highlighting contributions made by the Black community, lionizing heroes like Frederick Douglass and William Still; shining a spotlight on histories that don’t always appear in schoolbooks;
The Defense Department intelligence agency has paused observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pride Month, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and other cultural or historical annual events in response to President Donald Trump’s ban on diversity,
Booker T. Washington New Technology High School has announced the Black History Month events honoring local activists and student artistry. According to a press release, the Lions Battalion JROTC program is hosting A Black History Month Celebration honoring the contributions of Black Americans to the military and their role in building
She is the author of the Black history book, Black Broadway in Washington, D.C., a story that was first published in Washingtonian in 2016.
The upcoming CBS soap opera Beyond the Gates, which is the first new daytime soap in decades and the first-ever Black, one-hour daytime soap, will be the subject of an upcoming Paley Museum program– Blavity’s Shadow and Act can exclusively report.
President’s Trump's push to eliminate DEI from Federal agencies through Executive Orders almost took out the story of an unlikely casualty: The Tuskegee Airmen.
In response to President Donald Trump’s executive order banning diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, the Pentagon’s intelligence agency has paused special event programs and related events, including for Juneteenth,
YAKIMA, Wash. - A number of organizations in Yakima are holding a month-long series of events for Black History Month.
As everyone knows, Black history is America history. Our struggles and victories have affected this country for centuries, even though we don’t always receive our just due. With Black History Month right around the corner,
From historical plays to intimate concerts to films and children’s activities, here are 13 ways to take part in Black History Month in and around Boston this year.
Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict the fight for civil rights.