One of President Trump’s latest executive orders is stirring up serious backlash, and for good reason. The new order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” goes after the Smithsonian ...

New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. With the dawn of Black History Month comes deep ...

Two interlinked but unfinished revolutions – one intellectual and one overtly political – have been playing a central role in Africa and the diaspora. Together they will help shape the trajectory of ...

February marks Black History Month, a tradition that got its start in the Jim Crow era and was officially recognized in 1976 as part of the nation's bicentennial celebrations. It aims to honor the ...

What follows is part of a short chronological series on African and African American History. The educational system in the United States does not always offer a balanced history of Africa which is ...

WASHINGTON – Black historians read passages from banned books last week in a local park in Florida. In Washington, D.C., Black members of Congress that same week hosted panels on preserving Black ...

At high schools across the United States, students can take for the first time an Advanced Placement course in African American studies that addresses “the vital contributions and experiences of ...

Professor Toyin Falola has called on African scholars to reclaim the continent’s past as a foundation for building a just and stable future. Speaking at the University of Jos during the induction of ...

When people think about Black history in schools, they might think of the new Advanced Placement African American Studies course that Florida’s education department banned. Or perhaps their minds go ...

I teach history, but I am not a historian — at least not in a traditional sense. I’ve defended no dissertations and have no Ph.D. But for the past decade, I have been poring over primary source ...