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 ...

From its beginning in Wright’s Detroit basement, the museum has cultivated increased visibility for all African Americans by ...

Christopher Tounsel has previously received funding from the Council of American Overseas ... observers to posit that the African nation’s yearslong civil war could be at a crucial turning ...

The order singles out the National Museum of African American History and Culture ... honoring generals who fought for the South during the Civil War. The administration says the names honor ...

Black Americans are carefully reading ... War II, right after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. But in more recent history, the state of Maryland declared martial law in 1963, during the height of ...

The webpage's administrators temporarily changed an introductory paragraph to emphasize “Black/White Cooperation.” ...

Columbia also says it will review its admissions practices, citing “a recent downturn in both Jewish and African American ... during protests against the Israel-Hamas war that began on October ...

Many of these dwellings were still inhabited by the families of the four million African-Americans who had gained freedom in the Civil War ... He woke repeatedly during the night and lay awake ...

The original page had a full picture of Tubman at the top, as well as a 1896 quote attributed to her, reading ... end of the Civil War—refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans ...

Reading through them ... for good or ill, in American history. The Emancipation Proclamation, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and the postwar desegregation of the U.S ...

Baltimore— The African American Department of the Enoch Pratt Free Library is proud to present the official premiere of ...

The Department of Homeland Security shut down its office in charge of investigating civil rights complaints ... Reyes hit back at the lawyers during Friday’s hearing, pushing them to explain ...