The Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival is back for its 23rd year, celebrating Black filmmakers, actors and ...

Ralph Lauren’s Oak Bluffs campaign launched last week, building on a collection inspired by crisp styling ingrained in the ...

Mike Tolin's upcoming doc, Unraveling George will have its World Premiere at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film ...

Ralph Lauren features the Martha's Vineyard community of Oak Bluffs in the latest evolution of its collections, centering ...

A growing wave of African Americans are relocating to Kenya, citing the need to connect with their history and culture, or ...

Other African countries have attracted even larger numbers of African Americans. Ghana, which launched a “Year of the Return” ...

Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and South Carolina lawmaker.

The Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival began with a post on a Yahoo! chat room. In 2002, co-founder Stephanie ...

Plant your feet anywhere in Charleston's historic district and know that the city would not be what it is today without the ...

A long-forgotten African American cemetery in Jacksonville, where World War II veterans and descendants of slave families are ...

For more on the demographics of the U.S. Black population, see “ The Growing Diversity of Black America.” The number of immigrants to the U.S. who are Black has been growing in recent years (10% of ...

"There are black people in every continent who are all over the world," explained Professor Celeste Watkins-Hayes, an African American studies professor at Northwestern University.