Newsy spoke to the founder of Black Girls Smile, a nonprofit organization that provides mental health support for young Black women.

Black History Month is drawing to a close, and it’s VERY clear that the future of Black history is incredibly uncertain. As bogus debates over critical race theory roil their way through school board meetings across the country, they...

Zeb Powell is inviting as many athletes as he can to a sport that historically hasn't been very inviting.

A large amount of the infrastructure bill will go toward improving the impacts of highways and roadways on communities of color.

The husband of Vice President Kamala Harris was in a high school's museum when there was a threat.

Reaves Chapel in North Carolina is estimated to have been built around the 1850s or 1860s by former enslaved African Americans on the plantation.

Transplant program founder Dr. Dinee Simpson battles higher rates of liver, kidney disease among Black Americans.

Mary W. Jackson was part of the research team portrayed in the film "Hidden Figures."

Black families are moving out of Chicago, partly to seek lower costs of living and leave gun violence behind.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan talks about the collaboration between TFL and the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton to create the first Black History Tube Map in support of Black History Month. Interviews with Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, Arike...

CLEAN: Exterior shots of people seeing the sights of the Thames aboard the Black History River Cruise on 24 October 2021, in London, United Kingdom.

CLEAN: Interior and Exterior shots of people seeing the sights of the Thames aboard the Black History River Cruise on 24 October 2021, in London, United Kingdom.

After hearing about his death, George Perry Floyd's former teacher Waynel Sexton found a memory from second grade: a short essay and drawing inspired by Black History Month, in which George Floyd imagines his future as a Supreme Court...

CLEAN: Exterior shots of people seeing the sights of the Thames aboard the Black History River Cruise on 24 October 2021, in London, United Kingdom.

Closing arguments begin in the hate crimes trial of three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery.

CLEAN: Interior and Exterior shots of people seeing the sights of the Thames aboard the Black History River Cruise on 24 October 2021, in London, United Kingdom.

Play-by-play announcer Everett Fitzhugh and analyst JT Brown will be in the booth for the Seattle Kraken game Thursday against Winnipeg.

This Newsy documentary charts the life, loss, and triumph of Ed Scott Jr., a Mississippi farmer who waged a decades-long fight against discrimination.

CLEAN: Interior and Exterior shots of unveiling of Wilston Samuel Jackson plaque in Kings Cross Station, as Britain's first black train driver commemoration on 25 October 2021, in London, United Kingdom

Groups are working to correct past oversights of Black films, with diversity efforts allowing preservationists to better uncover forgotten history.

In the early 1960s, The Freedom Singers traveled across the country to raise funds for the civil rights movement and spread a message of hope.

As we near the end of Black History Month, we at The Recount want to take you back to where it all began: with Carter G. Woodson, a historian who believed that educating people (ALL people!) about Black history was absolutely necessary...

A "new" migration is similar to the one that began in the early 20th century.

As of 2020 African Americans accounted for just over 13% of the overall local TV news workforce, according to a survey.