Discover Black Heritage

As Black History Month is celebrated across the tri-state, the Bruce Museum in Greenwich is introducing its first artist-in-residence: Kimberly Klauss, who brings a narrative woven from the diverse threads of her life’s journey. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

Black Girls Cook is a Miami and Baltimore-based nonprofit helping young girls embrace the farm-to-table concept while also learning about Black Diaspora history. 

Author and essayist Zora Neale Hurston was the most significant and successful Black female author of the early 20th century.

AMC Theaters is celebrating Black History Month with $5 tickets to movies that highlight the Black experience.

Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated February as Black History Month.

Known as the “First Lady of Hip-Hop,” MC Sha-Rock was the first female MC of a hip-hop group. And while she may have been born in North Carolina, she’s all Bronx. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

Black History Month begins each year on the first day of February.

The exhibit at the Upper West Side museum is drawing some big crowds, as people flock to see works from the past few centuries — including the centerpiece of the collection, created by an artist from Harlem. NBC New York’s Gilma Avalos reports.

Standing at the pulpit of the Birmingham, Alabama, church where four little girls were killed by a Ku Klux Klan bomb in 1963, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the nation must remember and own the uncomfortable moments of its past in order to move forward.