The Amistad Commission meets quarterly to promote and protect the law mandating the teaching of African-American history in all New Jersey public schools.

Mahwah Township is taking the Ramapough Lenape Nation to court. The issue: ancient land use versus modern conservation law. Losses in the Legislature and on ...

In 1966, activist and Africana Studies Professor Dr. Maulana Karenga founded a new secular holiday on the seven days following Christmas: Kwanzaa.

Julie Livingston, a history professor at Rutgers University, has been named a MacArthur Fellow, which comes with a $625,000 unrestricted stipend.