Wood wants to stump some University of Colorado history majors about early American history, he’ll ask them which of the original 13 colonies was the wealthiest before the American Revolution and also ...
In areas of society such as housing, education and employment, the Jim Crow laws meant that African Americans experienced significantly worse conditions than white people. For example, in ...
Maria Stewart was America's first female African American political writer. Producing most of her work in the early 1830s, she preceded Sojourner Truth, Frances Harper, and even Frederick ...
A student of Shreveport’s Providence Academy became one of the first African Americans to serve as a clerk in the Railway ...
Delve into the challenges Black Americans face with Alzheimer’s and the urgent need for better prevention, care, and ...
The documentary features interviews that tell the story of life for the early African Americans of Braceville—their struggles, challenges, accomplishments and successes. The film explores the ...
But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the ...
Conductor Nicholas Hersh calls William Dawson's work "a fundamental part of our history and a beautiful piece of our culture.