african american history

Historian Deborah White reflects on her time at Binghamton University and her efforts to teach Black history as a story of both oppression and resilience.

'Gems Rediscovered' is a concert of works for orchestra that were lost for a time. Binghamton University Orchestra conductor and music director Timothy…

KEYSTONE CROSSROADS - A few months before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. launched the Poor People’s Campaign, an effort to end poverty in the U.S. Today, more than 50 years later – under the leadership of the Rev. William J. Barber of North Carolina and Dr. Liz Theoharis of New York – activists are reigniting the civil rights leader’s unfinished fight.

On January 1st, 1863, as the Civil War entered another hellish year, President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves in areas under…

During the fast paced aerial dogfights over Europe during World War II, the first all-black fighter group known as the Tuskegee Airmen would make history…

In 1805, John J. Speed brought a young 13-year-old slave named Peter from Virginia to the Town of Caroline, New York near Ithaca. After arriving in New…

Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose from humble origins to cross baseball’s color line and become one of the most beloved men in America. A fierce…

JACKIE ROBINSON, a new two-part, four-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon, will air April 11 and 12, at 9:00 p.m. on…

Electronic Field Trip: Lessons from the American Civil Rights MovementJoin New York Times best-selling author and youth advocate Wes Moore as he leads a…

The Nathaniel Dett Chorale is performing at Ithaca College and as part of the Oneonta Concert Association series this week. They are Canada’s first…