Join us for our upcoming gallery opening on Feb. 19 from 6-8 p.m. This exhibition highlights South Carolina’s first female ...

The press gallery overlooking the U.S. House chamber has been renamed after the abolitionist, writer and presidential adviser ...

Then, as now, out-of-state agents snatched people off the street. Then, as now, Illinoisans banded together to try to stop them.

Charles Clark III is on an intrepid “Collection Initiative” quest for artifacts that bring to light the forgotten and hidden presence of Blacks in the Adirondacks. Clark is the ...

What happens when historical fiction becomes a more accurate portrayal than the version of history given by mainstream historians?

TAMPA, Fla. — What began as Black History Week turned into Black History Month. And now, 100 years later, we are honoring a century of Black History Month. History can be taught, and it can be shared.

Both the left and the right try to co-opt it, but the real story of American slavery doesn’t serve any one faction.

When, in 1849, a man named Henry Brown escaped slavery in a box, America wondered: Could abolition be delivered by mail?

In 1773 Dinah Nevil, an Indigenous, Black, and European multiracial woman and her four children arrived in Philadelphia from Flemington, N.J, under orders from a slave trader who intended to ...

Vote them out. Respect my civil rights now. We want fair treatment. Those are some of the messages at an exhibit: Raise Your ...

Alexis Williams and Juanyea Vinson Sr. sit in their son’s room in Portage Park. Their son, who is the only Black student in ...

Historians, faith leaders, politicians and tour guides denounced the federal government’s removal of the display, as the city ...