African-American History

For six years now, the Detroit Unity Temple has held a quilt exhibit in February. Many of the quilts – but not all – are tributes to African-American…

Researchers at Michigan State University are gathering every scrap of information they can to develop a huge database on the African slave trade…

The Great Migration was one of the most significant population shifts of the 20th century. In the 1930s and 1940s, African-Americans migrated out of the…

It was an electrifying moment at last week's Golden Globes when Oprah Winfrey put the spotlight on a black woman from Alabama named Recy Taylor. In 1944,…

As Timothy Douglas gave his cast some advice before a recent rehearsal, giggles broke out when he mimicked one of the characters. Douglas laughed along…

The Michigan Women's Hall of Fame welcomed its latest group of honorees late last year.Among the five contemporary honorees was Olivia Letts. She was the…

No matter where you are, when you say the words "Detroit" and "music," someone's going to exclaim "Motown!"But Detroit's music history is much deeper and…

Each February, the libraries in Monroe undergo a transformation. The Black History Month Blues Festival turns these sedate study spaces into concert…

In honor of Black History Month, we visited with Amas Muhammad at Selden Standard in Detroit. He has a drink recipe for us below, but we wanted to know…

There is extra special importance to this Martin Luther King Day in Ypsilanti.Remarkably, it was 150 years ago on this day that abolitionist and orator…