Books have long been a cornerstone of cultural preservation and empowerment; this is especially true within the African-American community, where books created for us and by us have a history of being ...

A July, 1946 photo of Thurgood Marshall and Vivian Burey from The AFRO American Newspaper Archives, will be on view at the Banneker-Douglass Museum in Annapolis, Maryland, for the REVISIT/REIMAGINE ...

Detroit Book City’s 8th Annual African-American Family Book Expo & Read-In 2024! This event will be held on Sat. Feb. 17, 2024 from 12:30pm – 5pm at 8601 Woodward Ave. Detroit 48202 (at Pingree St.) ...

CHARLOTTE — The Charlotte African American Book Festival turned the page on its first chapter. The organization hosted its first annual festival in Uptown this weekend. It happened Saturday at the ...

The 31st annual African American Children’s Book Fair will be held in person Saturday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Pennsylvania Convention Center at 12th and Arch streets. Admission will be free to ...

In 1761, a young girl crossed the Atlantic on a slave ship. Captured in West Africa and transported to Boston, where she was enslaved by John and Susanna Wheatley. They named her Phillis, after the ...

On Saturday, February 11 th, hundreds of children from the Philadelphia area gathered at the Pennsylvania Convention Center for the 31 st Annual African American Children’s Book Fair. The event ...

The 31 st annual African American Children’s Book Fair will be held in person on Saturday, February 11 th, from 1PM to 4PM at the Pennsylvania Convention Center at 12 th & Arch Streets. Free admission ...

Sidney Keys III was part of Marvel's Hero Project on Disney+. A 13-year-old has started a youth-led book club program to help empower boys through African-American literacy. Sidney Keys III told "Good ...

Adrian Miller begins the introduction of his new book, “Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue” (University of North Carolina Press, April 2021), with the admission that he ...