As part of the successful effort to advance racial equality, many mass gatherings and actions were performed over the ...

There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...

Called “Black Memorabilia” and “Black Americana” at times, blackface characters and apparel have had a long run in America. Now, the African American Museum is confronting their legacy head-on.

THIS column continues from last week. Isaac Jacob Rochussen, the patrician from the Netherlands who brought Nicholas Said to New York in January 1860, exposed him to his first baptism of American ...

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its ...

The IWA created a book called "Freedom is Beautiful." It's a book that depicts African American Iowans who migrated to the state during the Civil War era. With help from the University of Iowa ...

Nantucket is home to more than 800 pre-Civil War era buildings, one of which marks an important milestone in 2025.

Fort Defiance Civil War Park and Interpretive Center, in partnership with the Mt. Olive Cemetery Historical Preservation ...

Donald Trump’s measures ending government diversity efforts are part of a much broader effort to reverse civil rights gains ...

Many African Americans in the decades before the Civil War were also well aware of the ... to the 1831 Colored Convention explained, “the American Colonization Society stands with the same ...