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.

Although “I Am Nobody’s Slave” takes the form of a memoir, Minnesota native Lee Hawkins’ book becomes something bigger: an ...

Credit card companies are robbing us. In the last decade, they have nearly doubled their interest rates — and last year, ...

SMITHFIELD, N.C. (WTVD) -- Since she was 16 years old, Mary Cox Matthews has spent every moment by her late husband Frank J. Matthews' side. She was emotional as she stood in front of a historical ...

The lives of James Hanover Thompson and David Simpson were forever changed, destroying their childhood innocence. Over 65 ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates, acclaimed author, journalist, and activist, commenced the spring ’25 semester “Global Justice: Historical ...

The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different ...

Today in Alexandria, the Oswald Durant Center and Annie B. Rose House bear the names of these two civil rights leaders.

Trump consciousness purports to claim – or reclaim – control over America: the land of white Christian nationalists and no one else, damnit!

We have systematically oppressed a group of people for 400 years — from the slave ships of 1619 to the Three-Fifths ...

Belle da Costa Greene, who was JP Morgan’s librarian, became a lively fixture at Gilded Age mansions, country retreats, ...

Dehumanization is a time-tested strategy of autocrats everywhere ... In the United States, portraying African Americans as inferior humans using Sambo, Jim Crow, Mammy, and Jezebelle caricatures ...