African-American history

After Florida education officials rejected an Advanced Placement African-American studies course, the College Board on Wednesday released a new framework that appears to have dropped content that drew objections from the state.

Jacksonville’s historic Old Stanton Highschool Downtown could become a mixed-use facility and community cultural center, if a nonprofit is successful in…

Editor's Note: The lecture referenced in this story has been rescheduled for Saturday, Dec. 19 at 8 p.m. Reairings are scheduled at midnight and 6 a.m. on…

Police in St. Johns County are searching for a marker that had just been installed as a reminder of a lynching that had taken place on the site, off…

Some of the Jacksonville buildings many people know today came from the minds of largely forgotten African-American architects — and their legacy is the…

The Jacksonville Public Library unveiled a piece of art Wednesday from Harlem Renaissance sculptor and Jacksonville native Augusta Savage.The painted…

A one-room schoolhouse built in 1898 to educate the children of freed slaves opened as a museum in Jacksonville on Saturday. Its new home is Walter Jones…

Local author Brooke Stephen's new book, "Men We Cherish: African-American Women Praise the Men in Their Lives," hopes to counteract the often negative…

A historic one-room schoolhouse once used to teach the children of freed slaves is being converted into a museum in Mandarin.Workers relocated the…

This week, as the nation marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Florida man known as the father of that…