In the Jim Crow South, activists became martyrs at the hands of white racists, all for the just cause of using the vote to ...

By FRANCIS OGBIMI In the first part of this series in which we are calling for an economic summit now rather than constitutional conference, because: Our research revealed that all the rich and ...

The program's unique focus on texts that explore citizenship, government, History, and culture as a pathway to expand African American students ... and the evidential facts of what occurred ...

CAROL ANDERSON, HISTORIAN: This was a coup based on the devaluation of African American citizenship. What Wilmington tells us in that larger scope of American history is how fragile American ...

The United States has made almost no progress in closing racial health disparities despite promises, research shows. The government, some critics argue, is often the underlying culprit.

In the first six months of the Kennedy Administration, some 50 black men (and women) were appointed to executive branch jobs.

Visitors can reach the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture by taking the DC Circulator's National Mall bus or the Metro's Blue, Orange or Silver lines to Smithsonian ...

“We have found seven Black farmers, and we’re still interviewing,” said Susie Brent King, president of the Staunton-Augusta ...

nurse and cook during the Civil War Olatunji Osho-Williams A Romare Bearden print served as a starting point for the American playwright's 1987 drama, which follows a Black family's struggle to ...

Even before his skull was fractured by an Alabama state trooper during the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march, John Lewis had, ...

The G.I. Bill, which provided life-changing education and housing benefits to millions of World War II veterans, excluded ...