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 ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) -The United States Colored Troops played a role in the history of Fort Fisher from the Civil War to World War II. Many of the United States Colored Troops killed during the ...

At the corner of Charles Street and Ferry Avenue in Camden, a New Jersey pastor has made it his mission to honor the Black Civil War soldiers buried in Butler Cemetery.

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 ...

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 ...

A Shreveport museum is honoring the history of the city’s first bank for freedmen by displaying a special exhibit during ...

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Civil rights leaders and elected ... his presidential pardons of Jan. 6 defendants, the war in Ukraine, cryptocurrencies and other topics. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) “It means ...