The Philanthropist Who Built Over 5,000 Schools for Black Students in the Jim Crow South
In the trailer for the documentary Rosenwald, civil rights activist and U.S. Rep. John…
Hidden History
Birthing a Slave: Reproduction and Inhumanity during America’s Slavery Era
Most people know of slavery, but we don’t know about slavery. Specifically, we…
The Defiant One: Why You Should Know Civil Rights Icon Gloria Richardson
Some called her “Glorious Gloria.” Others referred to her as the second coming of…
5 Myths on the reasons why the south separated
150 years since the beginning of the civil war, apparently we are still fighting it, or…
Pentagon admits secret race-based gas experiments on minority US troops in WWII
The US military has admitted it carried out secret race-based experiments during the…
9 Facts About Macon Bolling Allen
1. Macon Bolling Allen was born a free man in Indiana in 1816. His birth name was Allen…
Mormon church to digitally index millions of handwritten records on 4 million freed slaves
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER and REUTERS The Mormon Church will lead efforts to digitally…
White attorney calls on feds to reopen 1940 murder case of NAACP member
By ASSOCIATED PRESS Three quarters of a century after an NAACP activist was murdered for…
The (1915-1960) Great Migration
The Great Migration was the mass movement of about five million southern blacks to the…
Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Porters
By: Storyteller The International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids was the…
The Virginia Calculator: Thomas Fuller, African “slave” and Mathematical Genius
BY STORYTELLER Thomas Fuller, familiarly known as the Virginia Calculator, was a native…
RIP: Remembering the life of political leader, Marcus Garvey
BY STORYTELLER Marcus Garvey was a proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism…
Black babies used as alligator bait in Florida
By Chuck Strouse It has been pretty well documented recently that, during slavery and…
Remembering Henry Johnson, the Soldier Called “Black Death”
By Gilbert King, Smithsonian Mag Like hundreds of thousands of young American men, Henry…
The Freedman’s Bureau: The government’s failed attempt at reparations
By Diane-Jo Bart-Planged In the wake of the Civil War, some four millions slaves were…
A surgeon, highest ranking black civil war soldier, and the “Father of Black Nationalism”
SOURCE: BLACKTHEN Martin Robison Delany was an African American abolitionist, the first…
Outstanding players from the Negro League era
BY FRANK DROUZAS Staff Writer Before America’s pastime was desegregated, a series of…