PITTSBURGH — The United States Postal Service today unveiled a new stamp design honoring Kwanzaa, a Pan-African American holiday observed annually from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1. The ceremony — in partnership ...

Every year, Jews around the world tell the story of the Israelites’ liberation from slavery in roughly the same way. And every year, familiar props help bring that story to life. This Passover, two ...

The United States Postal Service will immortalize the Smithsonian National Museum of African American and Culture on a Forever stamp slated to be issued next week. On Oct. 13, the USPS will hold a ...

SALISBURY — When you have a stamp collection like Dr. Mary A. Love’s, you might lean toward keeping it tucked away in a safe and only bringing it out at dinner parties or to impress fellow collectors.

JOHANNESBURG — When Nelson Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, South Africa’s post office issued a stamp with his image. It released another when Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa’s first ...

Hattiesburg native Otha Sullivan’s latest book combines history with one of his hobbies: collecting postage stamps. “African American Achievement Stamped Through History” looks at the contributions of ...

Charles Alfred Anderson approved stamp art by Sterling Hundley, c. 2014. ‘Chief’ Anderson was a self-taught Pennsylvania pilot who served as an instructor at the Tuskegee Army Air Field. Loan from the ...

ORMOND BEACH — A retired Ormond Beach educator has turned her love of history and decades-long passion for stamp collecting into an opportunity to educate others about African American history. Eretta ...

It’s no secret that African-Americans have contributed to the development of the United States; more than we are given credit for. However, most of the ones who have been acknowledged for their work ...

Robert Robinson Taylor, who is the first African American graduate of MIT and believed to be the nation’s first academically trained black architect, was inducted into the Postal Service’s Black ...

In honor of its first anniversary, the National Museum of African American History and Culture will be commemorated with a Forever Stamp by the U.S. Postal Service. Subscribe to read this story ...