The W.H. Dorsey painting is one more piece of evidence that there was a thriving Black community in antebellum Philadelphia ...

Even before 1960, when seventeen countries in Africa gained independence in a single year, American diplomats had identified ...

The group went to the departmental archives in Périgueux, where they found only one record which contained Yvette’s surname — ...

Today’s push for school vouchers highlights America’s long and sometimes forgotten history of resisting integration in the classroom.

LeBron James’ measured response to the 2017 racial vandalism at his home highlighted the ongoing challenges faced by African ...

The rookie QB has made an impression on some of the team's most respected players of the past and restored hope to a starved ...

In fact, traces of past debates about American identity can be found in surprising places: dinosaur museums. Dinosaurs ...

For abolitionists, she cared too much about “the woman question”, for feminists, she was too concerned with anti-slavery ...

January 15 marks 50 years since the Alvor Agreement promised Angola’s independence from Portugal. Yet the new state was ...

Archie Wade integrated the University of Alabama's faculty and helped Paul W. "Bear" recruit his first Black players.

That’s the case in The Alto Knights, which reunites De Niro with director Barry Levinson. The pair had previously ...

Colon, who became the first Black nurse in the U.S. Army Air Corps after President Harry S. Truman desegregated it in 1948, ...