African American culture

A pivotal conversation led him on a quest to understand African history and create a one-of-a-kind village for practitioners of the Yoruba religion.

How a phrase tied to authenticity and resistance sometimes just dishes out entertainment.

From Phillis Wheatley to Lil Uzi Vert, Black names and their evolution tell the story of America.

In the new nonfiction collection “You Don’t Know Us Negroes,” what emerges is a writer who mastered a Black idiom but seldom championed race pride.

19th-century African American writer Charles Chesnutt’s subversive literature.

W.E.B. Du Bois’s exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition offered him a chance to present the dramatic gains made by Black Americans since the end of slavery.

Dick Gregory was an activist, comedian, and trendsetter for Black vegans.

A musicological conversation about the history and social value of Black music.

So many people taught us to be more than the hatred heaped upon us.

A scholar disproves the long-held assumption that black names are a recent phenomenon.

Comedian Richard Pryor's performance of Blackness throughout his career.

Born into slavery, then reclaimed by black women, the headwrap is now a celebrated expression of style and identity.

Black barbershops are a symbol of community, and they provide a window into our nation's complicated racial dynamics.

Vincent Carretta takes a look at the remarkable life of the first ever African-American woman to be published.

In 1871, the Fisk University singers embarked on a tour that introduced white Americans to a Black sound that would reshape the nation.

The storytellers who taught me over the course of my career all knew how to bring Black history vividly to life.

It’s been 25 years since Puff Daddy went to the Hamptons. What’s changed?

The New York Renaissance, also known as the Harlem Renaissance, was the first Black-owned, all-black, fully-professional basketball team established in 1923.

The International African American Museum, in a former slave port, is about more than slavery. It’s about survival and resilience.

In the late 19th century, William Dorsey Swann's private balls attracted unwelcome attention from authorities and the press.