Hidden History

Frederick Douglass Thought This Abolitionist Was a ‘Vastly Superior’ Orator and Thinker

The One-Eyed African Queen Who Defeated The Great Roman Empire

Who Was Omar ibn Said? North Carolina’s Enslaved Muslim Scholar

Many Black Americans helped pave the way in transportation

The 1965 Civil Rights March That Changed Everything

Here’s what little we know about the slave-era residents of Tampa Bay

New York Slave Revolt of 1712 challenged brutal Northern slavery

Harry Belafonte, barrier-smashing entertainer and activist, dies at 96

New York Draft Riots

Accounting for The Cotton Capital’s Human Cost

Long Before Jazz, Frank Johnson Was Playing the Hottest Music in America

Movements Capturing the Spiritual Roots of Black Culture

Black Capitalism, Underground Economies, and the Great Depression

Florida Town Established by Former Slaves Now Fights for ‘Sacred Land’ In Eatonville, Florida

Even Martin Luther King Jr. laughed: How Black people coped in the Civil Rights Movement

Here Is How Women Resisted Slavery in the American South

Before the Black Panther party there was the Lowndes County Freedom Organization

The women who stood with Martin Luther King Jr. and sustained a movement for social change