The celebration was held outside the Afri-Soul Marketplace at 12th and Washington streets. Black-owned businesses anchored ...

But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ’70s, which partnered with the modern Civil Rights Movement. In ...

Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes laid down a melodic mandate that applies to our times: “Wake up, everybody / No more sleepin’ ...

Kwanzaa is a celebration of African ... to Christmas so they could celebrate their own culture, people and principles, and ...

Christmas was Wednesday. Hanukkah started Wednesday night, On Thursday, Dec. 26, Kwanzaa began. "Kwanzaa is an African American and Pan ... Christians, Black Hebrews, Jews, Buddhists, Baha ...

Kwanzaa, celebrated from December 26 to January 1, honors African heritage through principles of unity, culture, and ...

This is a busy time of year for Tiffany Pool-Kouassi and the Spirit of Angela West African Dance and Drum ensemble, where she ...

The celebration of Christmas within Black American communities has always been much more than a time for festivities and family gatherings. Rooted in a profound legacy of resistance, resilience ...

The weeklong holiday that starts Thursday highlights seven principles — including collective work and responsibility, ...

The first poem written by a Black person and published in America is published on Christmas day 1760. It was written by Jupiter Hammon—a slave in Long Island, N.Y., who was allowed to attend school.