The museum focuses on the cultural heritage and history of African Americans in California and the western United States.

The venue was one of the very few places in the city where Black artists could show their work to an integrated audience. A ...

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): What did you find at the African American Museum? RAYMOND ARROYO (GUEST): Well, some great music exhibits, a long slavery section, and while the achievements of African ...

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 ...

For more than a decade I have served on the board of trustees of the public library in the progressive town where I live and work. When I joined the board, our usual business was pretty ...

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 ...

America cannot afford to whitewash its past. Yet that is exactly what is at stake in the current review of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. To question whether slavery and ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will open “The Gunboat Philadelphia Preservation Project” Aug. 22, a new exhibition where visitors can follow the multiyear effort to preserve the ...

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 21: (AFP OUT) President Donald Trump delivers remarks after touring the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture on February 21, 2017 in Washington, ...

President Donald Trump‘s latest remark about slavery has put renewed scrutiny on the Smithsonian museums, which are currently under internal review by the White House to “remove divisive or partisan ...

Massachusetts officials and civic leaders, criticizing what they called the Trump administration’s efforts to “whitewash” the stories the nation tells about itself, celebrated Boston’s rich African ...

A diverse crowd of more than 200 gathered Aug. 2 in the ballroom at the Southeastern Louisiana University student union to show their support for the Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum and ...