Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

Rep Chuck Owens was singin’ some high praise of the Louisiana Dept of Education’s guidelines for K-12 social studies classes ...

What are you going to do after today ... teaching the significance of holidays like Juneteenth and other events related to the history of slavery in America. “We need to demand that education ...

In the 1990s, John Mills of Bloomfield embarked on a quest to find out more about his ancestors. This took him to a Texas ...

In the years after slavery, many tried to destroy our bodies and spirit. Our people endured lynchings and false imprisonment.

The Pentagon’s intelligence arm has barred any celebrations related to MLK Jr. Day, Women’s History Month and other such ...

It comes after Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley claimed that Britain owes her country £3.9trillion, while a 2023 report put the figure owed to former Caribbean colonies overall at £18trillion.

Slavery Led Directly to Modern Inequality Despite their two centuries of contributions, hundreds of thousands of African Americans were left destitute after they were emancipated. After 1865 ...

More than six decades after American minister and civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the historic speech, “I Have a Dream,” from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, ...