In the Genealogical and Historical Room on the first floor of the Washington Memorial Library, the African American History Committee meets once a month to race against time and discuss Black history.

For the past 10 years, photographer Chris Aluka Berry has been documenting Black communities in Appalachia. Now his work is in the High Museum collection and a new book, Affrilachia: Testimonies.

Elana Meyers Taylor of the U.S. finally won bobsled gold in her fifth Olympics. 

‘It’s about the treatment and governance of Gullah Geechee people and communities throughout the state of Georgia.’

Last year, for Black History Month, NPR's Scott Simon spoke with Edith Renfrow Smith of Chicago, who has died at 111 years old.

A new book by a Georgia Tech professor traces the boxer's evolution from athlete to activist.

City leaders and donors gathered for a ribbon-cutting celebrating the $57 million expansion at The National Center for Civil and Human Rights.

Carol Moseley Braun is no stranger to stepping into new territory. She was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate now she shares that experience a new memoir.

One of the most prominent ways people celebrate Juneteenth is through food. Juneteenth festivities typically incorporate red foods and usually offer red drinks and cocktails. 

At Mercer University in Macon, students put together a yard show to get back to their educational roots.

In Augusta’s Sand Hills neighborhood, a 25-foot-long, 1,200-pound golf tee is the latest piece of Masters history.

Macon’s historic mansion shares its research into ‘Untold Stories’ of service and sacrifice 

When enslaved people fled bondage in the 19th-century South, their enslavers were often forced to describe the people they considered property as human beings in "runaway slave ads" in newspapers. 

Malinda Russell's A Domestic Cookbook was first published in 1866. It contains least a hundred recipes for sweets, plus recipes for shampoo and cologne – and remedies for toothaches.

The beginning months of 2025 have seen efforts to intentionally erase Black history, but Ruckage, a fashion brand founded by Darryl Bordenave, has countered this with its newest clothing line currently on display at Bloomingdale’s in Lenox Mall, celebrating the legacy of the historic Tuskegee Airmen.