Rochelle Riley's Detroit story will be celebrated at Wright Museum

The spotlight will be on former Detroit Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley during a celebration on Friday, March 13 at the ...

Slavery exhibit is changing at the African American history museum as a loan agreement ends

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, ...

Hip-Hop Culture Launches #KickRacism During Women’s History Month in Historic Global Anti-Bias Alliance

United Nations collaboration anchors year-long campaign aligned with the Second International Decade for People of ...

ADIFF Women’s History Month Film Series Highlights Black Women’s Stories, African-American Stories and Conversations

The African Diaspora International Film Festival is happy to announce its 2026 Women’s History Month Film Series, a ...

Slave ship remnant to leave Smithsonian as it impacts visitors in final month

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is removing a rare slave ship timber from its Slavery and Freedom exhibit and sending it back to South Africa.

Controversial daguerreotypes welcomed to International African American Museum in ‘homecoming’

Harvard University has transferred the controversial Zealy daguerreotypes — images of naked enslaved people in South Carolina — to the International African American Museum in Charleston.

After legal battle with Harvard, woman’s quest to reclaim images of enslaved ancestors culminates in public museum display

The seven daguerreotypes, the earliest known images of enslaved people in the United States, will be unveiled Wedneday at the International African American Museum in Charleston, S.C.