An appeals court on Friday lifted a block on executive orders seeking to end government support for diversity, equity and ...

To mark its bicentennial, the Brooklyn Museum highlights the pieces that have shaped its collection—and the foundational art ...

Calling all history buffs! Step back in time at one of these significant sites in each state, from Revolutionary War ...

A mysterious formal portrait of an enslaved man named Frederick is expected to sell for as much as $500,000 at auction in New ...

Five years ago today, we we were sent home from school with the “understanding” that we would be back in two weeks. I ...

Alice Stebbins Wells patrolled dance halls, skating rinks, penny arcades and movie theaters, keeping these public spaces free ...

The song “ Goodbye Horses ” is best known as the fanciful soundtrack for serial killer Buffalo Bill’s naked dance in the 1991 ...

We were all taught in school that the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the U.S. to celebrate American independence ...

This kind of just looked like a co-working space to me,” she said. And unlike some of the coffee shops she avoided, it wasn’t ...

In the early 20th century, these Black nurses came to New York City from the Jim Crow South to join the fight against the ...

News speaks to the artist who helped paint the Black Lives Matter plaza in 2020 after crews began ripping it apart.

Anxiety has returned to Wall Street with markets poised to give back much of Wednesday’s gains, which were spurred by ...