They say everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day. If you're from Scituate, Massachusetts, that might actually be true.

Callie Crossley speaks with author Bridgett Davis about her new memoir, remembering her mother's remarkable life running the Detroit Numbers.

Two Tufts University professors have launched the African American Trail Project to highlight some of the sites that are important to black history in and around Massachusetts.

A Cambridge elementary school picked up on a national trend of decorating school doors with images of historical figures during Black History Month.

The living-history museum in Virginia re-creates 18th-century recipes in its restaurants using ingredients grown in the traditional way onsite. But some modern palates aren't too keen on the taste.

Can the everyday objects that people keep for years tell the story of a changing town?

If you’ve boarded an MBTA bus lately, you might have seen a decal on the side dedicated to Rosa Parks.

No one knows for sure, but there are a few leading theories.

In celebration of MLK Day, we take a closer listen to a few of Reverend King’s speeches and deconstruct some of his best-known rhetoric.

America’s proverbial melting pot is real. But African-American history is all but missing from the nation’s archives. Now, a two-pronged campaign is helping families donate personal papers to historical collections to fill in the gaps.