The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago.

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

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

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

JOHN BROWN, a barber, became the city's wealthiest African American through investment in real estate, valued at $40,000 at his death in 1869. Founded by New Englanders who favored reform, Cleveland ...