Discover Black Heritage

Black Girls Cook is a Miami and Baltimore-based nonprofit helping young girls embrace the farm-to-table concept while also learning about Black Diaspora history. 

Author and essayist Zora Neale Hurston was the most significant and successful Black female author of the early 20th century.

AMC Theaters is celebrating Black History Month with $5 tickets to movies that highlight the Black experience.

Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated February as Black History Month.

Known as the “First Lady of Hip-Hop,” MC Sha-Rock was the first female MC of a hip-hop group. And while she may have been born in North Carolina, she’s all Bronx. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

Black History Month begins each year on the first day of February.

The exhibit at the Upper West Side museum is drawing some big crowds, as people flock to see works from the past few centuries — including the centerpiece of the collection, created by an artist from Harlem. NBC New York’s Gilma Avalos reports.

Standing at the pulpit of the Birmingham, Alabama, church where four little girls were killed by a Ku Klux Klan bomb in 1963, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the nation must remember and own the uncomfortable moments of its past in order to move forward.

Closing the racial wealth gap won’t be easy. This financial educator wants to empower Black Americans to build wealth through fun and relatable money lessons.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is forming a new team to examine why Black veterans received disability and other military benefits at a lower rate than white veterans, an issue covered in a series of NBC reports this week.

Two lawmakers re-introduced legislation Tuesday that would award GI Bill benefits to the descendants of Black veterans who failed to receive assistance to attend college or buy homes or businesses in the post-World War II years.

The BoykinZ is a group of singing sisters who are taking over social media with their country infusion style. During a recent trip to Texas, NBC 5’s Brittney Johnson talked to the group about what it’s like being young Black women in country music.

A group of singing sisters taking over TikTok with their country infusion style made their first trip to Texas.