During his military service, Charles Thompson, a Black soldier from Amherst serving in the 54th regiment during the Civil War ...

Ancestral Bridges is transforming the preservation and sharing of the rich history and contributions of Black and Afro-Indigenous families in Amherst and beyond. For the first time in the town’s ...

Comedy has always been a tool for Black women—an instrument to tell ... a reflection of how laughter can break chains and build bridges. In honoring their journey, we’re continuing their ...

In writer and poet Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay’s 2010 poem “Misfit,” the speaker of the poem notes that other people often ostracize him for his differences. But he doesn’t care ...

As an autistic English professor who studies literature and neurodiversity, I was especially unnerved by Kennedy’s contention that many autistic people will never write poetry. Autistic poets ...

The 20-year-old wouldn’t come home for another three days. It was April 20, 1963, a day that would become known as “Black Saturday” as 79 brush fires devoured New Jersey’s Pine Barrens.

A Rockdale County school district spokesperson said that the signs posted on April 15 were from a class history lesson about Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to integrate an elementary school ...

Knoxville's Poet Laureate Black Atticus shares a poem capturing Knoxville's deep ties to baseball ahead of the 2025 State of the City address at Covenant Health Park on April 25, 2025 FBI director ...

“For only $25 a year, you can protect Black history,” Moss told his congregation.