President Donald Trump is attempting to dismantle the Department of Education. His efforts are history repeating itself.

There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...

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.

Every summer, tourists flocked to Rock Rest, a tidy house tucked away in the woods on the outskirts of Kittery. After ...

In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

He suppressed his disenchantment with religion and, in March 1861, applied to the African Civilization Society, which was ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

Not long after the Civil War, hundreds of Black families lived and thrived in Forsyth County, owning their own land and creating wealth. But in 1912, that development came to a halt after a white ...

Going without insurance hurt all low-income Americans. But studies suggest the drop in Black Americans’ coverage under Trump’s plan outpaced that of white Americans. The rate of uninsured Black ...

My military service saw my allegiance to six different presidents over almost 40 years in uniform. I didn’t always agree with ...