Polk State College had offered the Introduction to African-American Studies course at least since the 2018-2019 academic year ...

Engraving depicting the shooting of Major Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill by free black man Peter Salem, public domain. Slavery is the great exception to the rule of liberty proclaimed in the ...

Claims that federal officials ordered the removal of a the infamous 1863 image sparked concern over the Trump administration’s efforts to eradicate what it calls “corrosive ideology,” despite the US ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Foreword / Kevin Young -- Introduction / Michelle D. Commander -- SLAVE REBELLION AND INSURRECTION. David Horsmanden, from The New-York ...

Revered by some as a freedom fighter and reviled by others as a fanatic, John Brown is one of the most polarizing figures in American history. Long before his famous 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, Brown ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones responds to the controversy around her work. When "The 1619 Project" debuted two years ago as a special issue of The New York Times magazine, it both gained critical acclaim and ...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Four ways to freedom -- President will rise -- Instrument in God's hands -- Mighty act -- Fame takes him by the hand -- Postscript: Father Abraham -- Appendix -- ...

Langston Hughes, my favorite writer, wrote a poem in 1926, when he was 25 years old. It declared, with a mix of substantial sadness and delicate defiance, "I, too, am America." Born in the long ...

The remark, made as the president has ordered a wide-ranging review of museum exhibits, added to his pattern of minimizing Black history. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs Reporting from Washington President ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday he will pressure the Smithsonian Institution - a premier museum, education and research complex for U.S. history and ...