Don’t let Diane Nash’s small role in the film "Selma" fool you. She was a crucial figure in the Freedom Rides, the lunch counter sit-ins, protests for Blacks’ voting rights and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1965.

This February – we will celebrate Black History 29 seconds at a time – with 29 second video vignettes from your favorite artists, actors, politicians, Q-Jays and more! – see what we did there – it’s a leap year – so February has 29 days! Today, we kick off Black History Month with a message from Dre […]

The big winners from the 2016 SAG Awards ranged in race, as Hollywood clearly plans to acknowledge talent and not color preference.

Indians are upset over Queen Bey's look for Coldplay's "Hymn of the Weekend" video.

Baltimore is home to one of the country’s ‘most dynamic cultural and educational institutions’, the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum.  In addition to their normal hours, the museum will host a series of events this February based on their 2016 theme, And a Little Child Shall Lead Them:  Black Youth in the Struggle.  Their message […]

As part of their After Dark Series, the National Aquarium will celebrate Black History Month on February 6th with ‘a special evening focused on Black History throughout the region featuring music, performances and more fun for the whole family!’ You can ‘Explore local history of African Americans on the Eastern Shore with art from the Reginald […]

Last year, we were introduced to several talented new Black actors and actresses like Shameik Moore, John Boyega, and Tessa Thompson - all of whom broke out to star in their own super successful endeavors.

Each Saturday in February, the USS Constellation at the Inner Harbor will host “To Catch a Thief” “This one-hour tour aboard USS Constellation will focus on the US ship’s role in intercepting and prohibiting the illegal Atlantic slave trade in the years leading up to the Civil War. Tour and hands-on activities combine to bring […]

This Black History Month, Johns Hopkins University is offering a lecture “illuminating the lived experience of slavery” .  The discussion, titled Entangled Lives: Slavery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon takes place on February 18th at 5pm. “The fifth-largest slave owner in Virginia by the late 1780s, George Washington constantly struggled with the tangled web of slavery despite […]

While Black people were once turned away from voting stations, they now play an important role in upholding the justice and dignity of our nation.

The Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park Museum is a great place to celebrate Black History Month.  This year, the museum will celebrate Baltimore “MASTERS” Art of the Ancestors on February 6, 13, 20, and 27th.  “This landmark exhibition is a salute to historical Baltimore African-American visual artists. “Ancestors” will feature more than 20 visual artists that actively […]

The Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park Museum is a great place to celebrate Black History Month.  This year, the museum will celebrate Baltimore “MASTERS” Art of the Ancestors on February 6, 13, 20, and 27th.  “This landmark exhibition is a salute to historical Baltimore African-American visual artists. “Ancestors” will feature more than 20 visual artists that actively […]