He saw violence as a tool of resistance against the oppression of Black people. Malcolm X, who was born 100 years ago, ...

Thurgood Marshall came to rural Hillburn, launching the effort to desegregate American schools that culminated in Brown v. Board of Education.

Nottoway plantation just burned down, so we decided to look into its history and other plantations where the most brutal ...

An Iron Brigade soldier’s legacy lives on in his Civil War diary, preserved and shared by his ... Walker was wounded twice during the war, once in a September 1862 battle in South Mountain, Maryland, ...

Senior officials in the Trump administration—including the president himself—have verbally recognized Crimea as a part of ...

Carnegie Mellon University professor Edda Fields-Black provided an introduction to her lecture about Harriet Tubman's role in the 1863 Combahee River raid, a secret military mission against ...

Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.

Black Civil War soldier Private Aaron Bromley is buried in an unmarked Monroe grave. A Temperance teen is making sure he's ...

The remarkable success of the movie “Sinners” has sparked a renewed interest in how the two communities wrestled with life ...

Edda Fields-Black won the prize for her book 'COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the ...

Two years ago Pope Francis chose Prevost to replace Marc Ouellet as prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery for Bishops, handing him the task of selecting the next generation of bishops. He worked for many ...

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