1936 — The Detroit Red Wings win the NHL Stanley Cup with a 3-1 victory over ... 1966 — Emmett Ashford becomes first African American major league baseball umpire. 1971 — 35th US Masters Tournament, ...

Music star Lenny Welch, Asbury Park's first hitmaker in the rock 'n' roll era, died Wednesday, April 8, at AdventHealth ...

Coley Wallace, who starred as Joe Louis in the 1953 film “The Joe Louis Story,” took him under his wing Welch's version ... which featured generations of African-American talent, began to ...

The torso belonged to a young African-American woman, and was found dumped ... to try and prevent identification), but it depicted a wing. After Suffolk County police released photos of the ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National African American Museum of History and Culture a few ...

Kevin Young, who has led the National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021, went on leave before the president criticized the institution in an executive order. By Graham ...

Travel focused on African American culture provides opportunities for profound personal connections that textbooks alone cannot deliver. When visitors walk through historical spaces where ...

Braiding is more than a hairstyle. For generations, African American hair braiding styles have held deep cultural significance, telling stories of survival, status and self-expression. What may ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National Museum of African American History and Culture a few ...

A new book will focus on South Carolina's first African American female physician. Authors Dr. Walter B. Curry, Beverly Aiken-Muhammad and Anusha Ghosh present the narrative of Dr. Matilda Evans ...

This time, Turner added another stop on his long day’s journey — the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Turner knelt in prayer and laid a wreath at the entrance of the ...