Black History

Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, was initially suspended the same week Texas outlawed racial discrimination based on hairstyles.

Along the campaign trial, DeSantis has touted Florida’s new public school curriculum on Black history, a topic that has stirred political controversy across the country.

Vice President Kamala Harris is set to travel to Florida Friday to deliver critical remarks in response to the state Board of Education’s approval of new standards for how Black history will be taught in public schools.

D.C. police are searching for the suspect who was caught on camera defacing a mural of Black singer and activist Paul Robeson along the U Street corridor. For Abdur-Rahim Muhammad, the mural depicting Robeson’s life has been a dream come true. “We now have tours of all the murals up and down U Street. At any day in the...

Someone casually spray painted graffiti over the mural honoring Black history. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

Freed men and women built the Scotland A.M.E. Zion Church in Potomac, Maryland, in the early 1900s. Now, the church is gathering donations to complete a restoration and expansion project. News4’s Tommy McFly reports.

The ancestral roots of the ten oldest African American families in Fredericksburg, Virginia, were revealed Friday as part of a project created to recognize the city’s Black residents. Representatives of families with deep roots in Virginia gathered together on the auditorium stage at James Monroe High School. They submitted their DNA for the research months ago to learn more...

The ancestral roots of the ten oldest African American families in Fredericksburg, Virginia, were revealed Friday as part of a project created to recognize the city’s Black residents. News4’s Julie Carey reports.

A reminder that slavery is a not-so-distant part of our history: Daniel Smith Sr. was born in 1932 to a 70-year-old father who was once in bondage in Virginia.

A reminder that slavery is a not-so-distant part of our history: Daniel Smith Sr. was born in 1932 to a 70-year-old father who had been in bondage in Virginia. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

The B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore recently opened a new exhibit about the Underground Railroad. News4’s Shawn Yancy spoke with the museum’s executive director.

The B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore has opened a new exhibit that spotlights the journey enslaved people took on their way to freedom along the city’s physical railroad tracks. The new permanent exhibit is called “The Underground Railroad: Freedom Seekers.” It shares the journey of 27 people who “are documented as having used the B&O Railroad during their journeys”...