New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of ...

But one unique story of Black migration and land dispossession is now being told. That's the story of the Kingdom of the ...

Black Americans have been playing baseball for a lot longer than many people realize argues there’s at least one demographic ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

In 1898, in the landmark case of U.S. v Wong Kim Ark, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the birthright citizenship guarantee, ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, including on X, Reddit and Facebook.

The ability of the media to portray brutal repression of the Southern African Americans, and in parallel, speeches by Civil ...

Biden removed the names of Confederate generals from nine Army installations. Trump has restored those Confederate names, but ...

More than 100 years after his death, Robert Smalls — a Civil War hero, educator and South Carolina politician — will be ...

Bruce Anderson, an African American war hero buried in Amsterdam, fought alongside a Canajoharie white man, Zachariah Neahr, ...

"In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter," says civil rights attorney Damon ...