Hear from Du Bois scholar Dr. Karida L. Brown and award‐winning artist and children’s book creator Charly Palmer, authors of ...

Schools have long been a battleground over history, culture and equality. Today, these themes are colliding, once again.

Historian and author Carter G. Woodson is remembered as the “Father of Black History.” Read about his education, books, idea ...

Content warning: This piece includes an account of an apparent suicide.

Marcus Garvey ignited one of the most phenomenal social movements in modern history and was admired around the world. Yet few ...

The image of the writer’s grandmother in an Atlanta church invited him on a journey into family history.

Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on ...

Pankaj Mishra’s latest book, The World after Gaza, looks at the recent Gaza conflict—where Israel unleashed violence on Gaza ...

A documentary deconstructs the true crime genre, an obsessive worms his way into a pop star's entourage, and more standouts ...

The story of Black History Month begins in 1915. At this time, scholar Carter G. Woodson founded what today is called the ...

In February, you can celebrate Black History Month with a variety of WTTW programming that explores the political, artistic, ...