The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...

The Colored Orphan Asylum is under siege. A cauldron of resentment, anti-authority, and racial tensions rise as the city ...

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, better known as the NAACP, has a long history, working since 1909 to advance justice and equality for African Americans. It was ...

The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its origins dating back to the first African American congregations in the ...

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

The International Context, a new digital archive that demonstrates the far-reaching involvement of European nations in the ...

Civil rights champions have diverse college journeys. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may be the most recognized civil rights leader in U.S. history, but across many decades, numerous Black activists ...

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The genius of the right-wing crusade against diversity, equity and inclusion is that the term is amorphous enough that it can ...

During Black History Month, it is important to look at how far the education system for Black people has come. When slavery ...

We’ve been so worried about them charging into the streets and burning everything in sight, and instead, they’ve curled into the fetal position.

Who, incidentally, in the third volume of his chaotic memoirs, reveals that “we surrendered all the weapons allocated to us under the terms ... the occupation’s civil war and the December ...