But for a lot of Americans, the celebration, and the flag itself, are more complicated than that. That’s the question that Explain It to Me, Vox’s weekly call-in show, is setting out to tackle this ...

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

WATERLOO — A children’s reading event featuring Black authors showed the truth of the proverb “it takes a village to raise a child.” An African American Read-In Saturday featured three ...

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African American babies being used as alligator bait really happened, and it happened to real people. It doesn't seem to have been a widespread practice, but it did happen.

But African American English also includes more formal or standard varieties that don’t include any of these features, Weldon said, noting that “standard English is not just white English.” ...

When a Black child who speaks African American English is diagnosed with a speech disorder where none exists, it both stigmatizes the child and wastes valuable special education resources.

This is not the first period in U.S. history when white men have exercised control over women’s right to bear - or not bear – children, including during slavery. Then, it was a matter of numbers.

The 1998 movie, about the first Black child to desegregate an all-white school in Louisiana in 1960, explores “the true ugliness of racism” but also the love she received from her mom and dad ...

The two have reimagined familiar stories with photographs of Black children and, occasionally, new plot points, in an elaborate book of 141 photos. It's the sequel to 2021's GLORY: Magical Visions ...

The student body is largely African-American and many had lost family members in the pandemic. Rachel Davis: Sometimes in one household, it was three or four. A grandparent, an aunt, a cousin.

As African American–history education comes under attack, a conversation about the continued relevance of Carter G. Woodson’s 1933 book, "The Mis-education of the Negro" ...