BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Moon mountain named in honor of Melba Mouton
Mouton is a highly respected role model for all women and people of color pursuing a career in STEM.
Mouton is a highly respected role model for all women and people of color pursuing a career in STEM.
LaGarrett King has made it his mission to expand teaching about African Americans to kids from many different backgrounds.
Signed into law in 2019, New York's CROWN Act aims to ban discrimination in schools and workplaces based on the way a person wears their hair.
This year's Black History Month recital is the Sounds of History.
The DEC says Black New Yorkers, especially those with lower incomes, are disproportionately burdened by air pollution.
Arabella Chapman became the first Black child to enter Albany's public high school in 1873.
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in the 1960s, primarily in the Woolworth store.
A dish is showcased every week.
A Hudson Valley artist looks to bring generations of Black fiber artists to prominence.
The letters are correspondence between one of WNY's civil rights leaders and 40 Black soldiers from the historic Michigan Street Baptist congregation.
Impactful stories of the past, present and future.
Pushkala Prasad researches relationships between different identity groups in the U.S.
A total of 1,500 stories, four books and one website are the work of Barbara Seals Nevergold and Peggy Brooks-Bertram over the past 22 years.
One of the original members of the activist group The Brothers is making a difference in his community through the youngest members.
This year’s celebration included art from local Black artists, dance and spoken word performances
The class at Buffalo’s African American Cultural Center welcomes all people of all ages.
Rev. Robert Dixon continued to serve his country through his faith and became a champion for civil rights in New York’s Capital Region.
The Ed Smith School hosted its 20th annual celebration of Black History Month.
The Belle Center serves Buffalo as a community center, but for the woman who runs it, it’s much more.
The Michigan Street Baptist Church is undergoing renovations.
The Tuskegee meteorologists helped support combat missions.
Both spaces are carrying on a legacy of hard truths, tough conversations and hopefully healing.
At least one slave is confirmed to have made it to Owego during the Underground Railroad, with many others suspected.
"Make Farmers Black Again" is the message of a family farm trying to diversify New York’s agriculture industry.
Cecelia Calloway began her musical career at 9 years old.
Is gospel music moving away from its Black roots? One minister and scholar spent a decade trying to answer that question.
False Creeds opens Friday.
Wheatley was an enslaved person who was brought over from Africa to the United States.
It's a physical space to gather, share ideas and attend programs that help document and honor the legacy of African Americans at the institution.
A new interpretive center will feature the repurposing of a Dutch frame barn.
He transformed the RFD's internship program into a firefighter trainee program to help Black recruitment efforts nearly 30 years ago.
The BIPOC PEEEEEEK family project is offering a free Black history educational series to address mental health and open up the conversation about it.
The borrowed books are going into New York classrooms for the first time this Black History Month.
As a civil rights leader, he drove change that a new generation still stands for today.
Dr. Sharon Amos created a historical reflection of WNY Black churches that you know exist and have existed some for 100 or more years.
The center's books will reach New York classrooms for the first time.
Their focus at Zawadi Books is offering material by and about people of African descent from across the nation to right in their backyard.
An Orange County home is believed to be a new link to the Underground Railroad.
Every community needs a local voice. For the city of Buffalo, and as far as the signal will carry, that's WUFO AM and Power 96.5 FM radio.
