Toni Morrison will need to make some more room in her awards cabinet. The 81-year-old writer and educator has already garnered a Nobel Prize, a Pulitzer Prize, and numerous literary awards, and now she has been named as one of the recipients of this year’s Presidential Medal of Freedom. Speaking of her talents, a statement [...]

A new study has found that first lady Michelle Obama is the most televised first lady in history, with 44 television appearances under her belt in nearly four years — and more surely to come. Mrs. Obama has beaten out other former first ladies such as Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush, who each made less [...]

During Black History Month, we pause to salute and reflect on the contributions African Americans have made to the rich fabric that makes up the United States. There are many untold stories that reveal the best of Americans who stepped up when duty called, broke color barriers, or quietly made their communities better one person at [...]

The Smithsonian Institution will broke ground on the National Museum of African-American History and Culture (NMAAHC) on February 23, 2012 at a ceremony that President Obama and Laura Bush will attend. The museum is to be completed in the fall of 2015, a dozen years after President George W. Bush signed legislation calling for the creation of [...]