The Hampton University Museum, the oldest African American museum in the U.S., has received a $5 million renovation.

Originally created as one of the city’s numbered political subdivisions shortly after Houston’s founding in 1836, Third Ward has undergone significant boundary changes and population transformations ...

North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards, a second-term Republican, faced an angry crowd at a town hall Thursday night, with many booing him as he defended President Donald Trump's actions. Edwards told ...

“The Banjo Lesson and another Tanner piece, The Lion’s Head, form the cornerstone of our collection,” says Dr. Thaxton-Ward, the Director of the ... Its permanent exhibitions showcase African masks, ...

Black cultural institutions are more than just buildings filled with artifacts; they are guardians of history, protectors of truth, and spaces where narratives can be told by those who lived them ...

More than one quarter of the staff members at the only two federally run colleges for Native students were cut in February. By Rachel Nostrant A group of Native American tribes and students is ...

NORMAN, Okla. — Three tribal nations and five Native American students say in a lawsuit that the Trump administration has failed its legal obligations to tribes when it cut jobs at Bureau of ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum walks to the House Chamber before of President Donald Trump addresses ...

President Donald Trump on Friday celebrated a jobs report that saw unemployment rise, pointing to the growth in jobs for native-born Americans relative to foreign workers. The economy added a net of ...

Growing up on the Washoe tribal land spread across Nevada and California known as Hung-A-Lel-Ti territory, Kenneth Cruz started splitting wood when he was around 12. The youngest of eight ...

Elizabeth Musick, née Silverthorn, died Friday, December 20, 2024, in Brookfield, IL. She was 87. A native Texan and graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, she had spent the last 17 years ...

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