The Civil War had begun ... to commission black officers -- only one hundred gained commissions during the war. African American soldiers were also given substandard supplies and rations.

When I first read Smalls’ speech while researching political violence in the years after the Civil War, I was stunned. Most estimates of postwar killings of African-Americans amount to about ...

Alfonso Domingo, co-director of the documentary “Invisible Heroes: African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War”, explains the unknown work of the men who defended the rights denied to them in ...

Luzerne County Community College is hosting an exhibit which explores the often-overlooked history of African American ...

WATERLOO — A children’s reading event featuring Black authors showed the truth of the proverb “it takes a village to raise a child.” An African American ... took part in during Black ...

An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...

When the U.S. military decided to assign three African American engineering regiments to the Alaska Highway project, it departed from its usual segregationist policies. Since the Civil War ...

Georgia Southern University history professor Brian K. Feltman, Ph.D., is creating a powerful exhibit titled “More than a ...