African American History

Black curators are documenting how the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement affected Black artists and their work. That's the message behind "Curating The End Of The World: Red Spring," an online exhibit curated by St. Louis organizers.

Florissant-based novelist Lyndsey Ellis discusses the 16-year journey to bring her novel to publication, and the St. Louis history that provides a backdrop to its plot.

New and revamped exhibits at the Old Courthouse in St. Louis will better represent African American history in the city, particularly the story of Dred and Harriet Scott, who famously sued for their freedom there.

Monty Cole’s new play, "Black Like Me,” grapples with John Howard Griffin’s book of the same name, a memoir by a white journalist who posed as a Black man in the Deep South in 1959. Cole has said, “If the original book was an Idiot’s Guide to Being a Good Ally in 1961, the play is an Idiot’s Guide to Being a Good Ally in 2020.”

Teachers and education advocates have long called for school districts to include more lessons on Black history in the K-12 curriculum. With the recent…

The town of Alton was a major stop for escaped slaves making their way to freedom from St. Louis.Some runaways stayed in Alton, and some continued north…

Every February, schools around the nation commemorate the accomplishments of African Americans by highlighting them through Black History Month lessons…

Established in 1920, Washington Park Cemetery in Berkeley served as a for-profit burial place for African Americans. Before it stopped operating in the…

EAST ST. LOUIS — A new weekly tour in the city aims to bring its cultural and historical ties to the fine arts to life. Starting Friday, up to 10…

Malissa Blanchard doesn’t know if any of her ancestors were buried in the former Douglas-Lawnridge Cemetery in Washington Park, IL but she can’t rule it…