An enslaved African American in South Carolina did the unthinkable, writing his name on the walls of his vessels—and forever inscribing history.

In the 1940s, these short films set to music transgressed Hollywood’s racial mythology to create space for Black artists to experiment—and have fun.

Daniels and Austerlitz tell the story of jazz, from its origins in the blues, gospel, and funk to its impact on music around the world.

The groundbreaking team at Milestone Comics infused Static, Hardware and their other creations with Afrocentric dynamism, paving the way for T’Challa’s mainstream success.

Scripted from front-page news, the Federal Theatre Project’s Living Newspaper plays were part entertainment, part protest, and entirely educational.

Tony Bolden explores the spiritual principles that inform the foundation of Afrofuturist music.

Portia K. Maultsby documents the course of African American music, tracing the histories of the sounds alongside the histories of the people who made them.

The Black feminist collective's 1977 statement has been a bedrock document for academics, organizers and theorists for 45 years.

HBO's The Gilded Age has done its homework on Black History, creating a character based upon real life wealthy Black women of the time.

The murder of Emmett Till has been memorialized in song by such artists as Langston Hughes and Bob Dylan.