Discover Black Heritage

For 30 years, the Little Black Pearl workshop has utilized arts to help uplift members of the community, NBC Chicago’s LeeAnn Trotter reports.

Tamekia Swint is the founder of Styles 4 Kidz, a non-profit salon in Illinois that focuses on textured hair education for transracial adoptive parents and their children.

Several cities across the country will participate by hosting events that include film screenings and highlighting the importance of supporting Black films.

The Chicago Hip Hop Heritage Museum honors Chicago’s integral role in the history of hip hop, paying homage to the city’s biggest innovators over a half-century of the genre, NBC Chicago’s Evrod Cassimy 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. 

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.