A panel of local church leaders is held at the historic Wesley Temple AME Zion Church in Akron. Mark Greer, executive director of Akron 200, moderates a panel discussion on the local history of the ...

In this groundbreaking work, Du Bois reexamined Reconstruction by centering Black agency and arguing that formerly enslaved ...

All six episodes will be available on PBS.org and on the PBS App. The first episode is also scheduled for re-broadcast on PBS stations nationwide in primetime on Friday, July 3, 9:00 – 11:00 PM.

PBS’s American Masters series on Tuesday salutes the ground-breaking leadership, inspiration and history of a spectacular life with “W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel with a Cause.” ...

Sgt James Hughes was one of the hostages released early. With US-Iran relations once again in the spotlight, he talks about being ‘handcuffed, under armed guard’ ...

Twitty will host a Virginia Declaration of Rights dinner June 11 at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown. (Courtesy of ...

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver D.K. Metcalf was always meant to be in the league, something that his family legacy proves. When the Seattle Seahawks drafted him in the second round of the 2019 NFL ...

In the years following the Civil War known as Reconstruction, newly-freed African American men could finally vote, and would be elected to represent ...

This ‘American Masters’ production is never less than laudatory about the intellectual and activist, but doesn’t avoid the often-complicated realities of his life or ideas.

Alasdair Nichol, Debra J. Force, and Nigel Freeman will talk about American art and treasures as well as what led them into ...

State officials endorsed the inquiry after George Floyd's murder, but politics and the law have shifted in the years since.

The sight of thousands of Black protestors marching across Selma and Montgomery, Alabama, on the “All Roads Lead to the South” National Day of Action has drawn comparisons to Mississippi’s Freedom ...