Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art will host The Pennington Lecture with Annette Gordon-Reed on Thursday, February 20, 2025. On ...

Black History Month honors the achievements and struggles of African Americans throughout U.S. history, and it’s a great time ...

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

New defense secretary Pete Hegseth has canceled all cultural awareness months in the Department of Defense, including Black ...

The Defense Intelligence Agency has ordered a pause prohibiting all activities and events related to "special observances" to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order.

The Civil War and the end of slavery brought about the end to this Southern approach to fighting fires. Yet, crucially, the years of using enslaved men to fight fires had set the precedent for ...

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

These forms are called just-title servitude. The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which brought an end to racial slavery in the U.S., does allow for just-title servitude to punish ...

Mario Tama / Getty Images Slavery reparations are restitution payments for slavery remitted to the descendants of enslaved people. In theory, American slavery reparations would be paid by entities ...

Juneteenth was established as a federal holiday ... the holiday commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. It was the first federal holiday created since 1983, when Martin Luther King Jr.

Day, Juneteenth, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and ... 20 executive order moved to end DEI programs across the federal government, with another order signed Monday to “abolish” every DEI ...