Black History

Critical race theory is described in many Republican circles as divisive, racist and even unpatriotic. Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island are just three of the 22 states moving to ban the teaching of critical race theory in public schools — something Wellesley College Dean Michael Jeffries says is an obvious and pathetic attempt to distract from the real political...

On the 96th anniversary of Malcolm X’s birth, family members are working to preserve a little-known piece of the civil rights leader’s history — his last boyhood home in Roxbury.

The Association of Black Citizens of Lexington is highlighting contemporary and historical Black figures with portrait banners. Latoyia learns more about the project and its mission. To read more about the people featured on the banners, go to www.ABCLEX.org.

The coronavirus pandemic has been a struggle for so many kids, but one Massachusetts boy found a way to thrive. Throughout the month of February, 9-year-old Darien Moriset taught his own Black history lessons online — proving you’re never too young to teach. The Reading boy, who says he wants to change the world, hosted a live Zoom lesson every…

The pandemic has been a struggle for so many kids, but 9-year-old Darien Moriset has found a way to thrive — teaching his own Black history lessons on Zoom every night for the month of February.

In 2006, Massachusetts native Stephanie Wilson made history when she became the second African American woman to go into space as part of the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery on the 13-day flight. In just a few years, she could be poised to make history again.  “The view from space is spectacular, it can be very peaceful, very serene. The...

Massachusetts native Stephanie Wilson made history when she became the second African American woman to go into space as part of the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery on the 13-day flight. In just a few years, she could be poised to make history again as a NASA astronaut.

Paul R. Williams was the architect behind some of the most iconic buildings in Los Angeles and the homes of many of Hollywood’s biggest stars of the 20th century. The Los Angeles County Courthouse, Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, the Los Angeles International Airport are just a few of the designs that sprang from his imagination. But despite the...

Imagine it’s the 1940s and you’ve given years of your life to redesigning one of the most iconic hotels in the United States.
Imagine it’s then hailed by your peers as a modern-day marvel. Now, imagine you’re not even allowed to stay there because you’re Black.

The Lynn Museum is marking Black History Month with an exhibition of artifacts, documents and family items from some of the city’s most prominent Black residents. Museum Director Doneeca Thurston has been working on the exhibition since November 2019, but the project itself began in 2017 when the museum hosted an oral Black history project with North Shore Community College….

In a state rich with Black history, chances are many have walked right by them, but two Tufts University professors want everyone to know the meaning behind dozens of historical sites in Massachusetts. So they put together a map with more than 200 historical sites across the state in an effort to bring Black history to life in Boston and beyond. It’s called...

Two Tufts University professors looking to bring Black history to life in the Boston area put together a map of more than 200 sites for the African American Trail Project.

We all know about the Underground Railroad —the network that Harriet Tubman and others used to bring enslaved people from the South to the northern free states in the years through the Civil War. But you likely haven’t learned about the alternate route to freedom that ran through Florida and existed with the help of the Black Seminoles. This is...

The Root host Felice Leon joins NBCLX to discuss the celebration of Kwanzaa and if the social reckoning that occurred throughout the country in 2020 has had an impact on the Kwanzaa tradition.

Black organizers and activists explain the history of Juneteenth in Boston and why this year feels different, after George Floyd’s death and in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.

Protests over racial injustice were again held Saturday across the state of Massachusetts, as momentum for reform continues in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Hundreds of people showed up Saturday afternoon in Cambridge at a Black Lives Matter event. The large group gathered on Cambridge Common for a rally around 4 p.m. before marching down Massachusetts Ave. They...

Organizer Ashia Wilson says they’ve made some progress with Cambridge but noted there’s still a lot more work ahead.

Calls for change continued in Cambridge where hundreds participated in a Black Lives Matter march.

Dozens of rallies, marches and vigils were held Friday and are planned throughout the weekend in Massachusetts to mark Juneteenth, the traditional commemoration date of the end of slavery in the U.S. “Juneteenth, for me, is a celebration of Black history,” activist Monica Cannon-Grant recently told NBC10 Boston. “It’s still going to be the day that we were semi-free,...

People across the commonwealth gathered for marches and rallies on Juneteenth.