Discover Black Heritage

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. 

100 years later, NBC Chicago’s Alex Maragos takes a look back at William DeHart Hubbard, who was the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal.

Becoming the first city in America to create a publicly funded reparations program, NBC Chicago’s Christian Farr takes a look at Evanston’s practice and how it is impacting families, NBC Chicago’s Christian Farr reports.

As Illinois has a rich history of underground railroads during slavery that served as secret routes for enslaved people escaping to a free state, NBC Chicago’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

While the U.S. started observing Black History Month in 1976, that designation was actually an expansion of Negro History Week, which started in Chicago 50 year earlier. As NBC 5’s LeeAnn Trotter explains, one Bronzeville building is wrapped up in that history.

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.

As Black History Month begins, NBC Chicago’s Charlie Wojciechowski takes a look at the works of Chicago sculptor Erik Blome.

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

Beginning Jan. 30, NBCUniversal Local Chicago’s trio of properties — NBC 5 Chicago, Telemundo Chicago and NBC Sports Chicago — will commemorate Black History Month with a robust lineup of dedicated content, including profiles on local business and civic leaders who are not only making an impact in their respective communities, but a dee...

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.