Hidden History

The Ballad of Railroad Bill

Remembering Doris Miller

The Story Of Izola Ware Curry, The Woman Who Almost Assassinated Martin Luther King Jr.

The Incredible Henry ‘Box’ Brown: This Black Man Mailed Himself To Pennsylvania To Escape Slavery

Black History Heroes: How inventor Jan Ernst Matzeliger made modern footwear accessible

40 acres and a mule: How the first reparations for slavery ended in betrayal

The 1873 Colfax Massacre Crippled the Reconstruction Era

Black History In China: The History Of China’s First Black Inhabitants

The Queer Stories in Florida’s Black History

Mary Church Terrell: Black history icon and early architect of the civil rights movement

In 1964, a white, off-duty policeman killed a Black teenager in New York. That led to the now-infamous Harlem race riots.

Meet Bayard Rustin, often-forgotten civil rights activist, gay rights advocate, union organizer, pacifist and man of compassion for all in trouble

Transatlantic Slavery: How European Offers of Weaponry Lured African Chiefs into Slave Trade

Remembering the Women of the Black Panther Party

What Was the Harlem Renaissance?

After Freedom, Then What? What Those Escaping Slavery Found in Boston

Barbara Johns: The US’ forgotten civil rights hero

Black WWII soldiers asked a White woman for doughnuts. They were shot.