Hidden History

Revealed: How UK targeted American civil rights leader in covert campaign

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, 93, Dies; Created Database of Enslaved People A historian of colonial-era Louisiana, she dug deep into the

If You’re Black or Love CNN, Here’s Why You Must Know Who Bernard Shaw Was

FBI file shows bureau kept tabs on Aretha Franklin’s activism, a common focus during the Civil Rights era

New book provides a broad but personal glimpse at Black history in Alaska, and a roadmap for future scholarship

How an Enslaved Woman Took Her Freedom to Court

As black haircare pioneer Madam C.J. Walker is immortalized as a Barbie doll, a look back at the fascinating history of America’s first female self-made millionaire

How a history teacher and 13 Black students shaped the civil rights movement

An all-Black Little League team made history without playing a game

Queen Nanny: Jamaica’s Military Strategist and Hero

These Black Women Changed America

Liberia: The African Land of the Free American Slaves

Bayard Rustin: The Man Behind the Curtain of the Civil Rights Movement

Freedom Rides of 1961: Challenging Segregation in the American South

Here Is How Women Resisted Slavery in the American South

The Roots of Greenwood

Neighborhood Record Stores

Charles Henry Turner: The little-known Black high school science teacher who revolutionized the study of insect behavior in the early 20th century