Affirmative Action is on life support
Thurgood Marshall was an African-American lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the…
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400 Years: Commemoration of those who came first
The Tucker family can trace their lineage back to William, the first documented African…
Reconstruction: The second Civil War
Portrait of the first Black senator, H. M. Revels of Mississippi (far left) and Black…
Harriet Tubman: Soul warrior
By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH No, Harriet Tubman has not yet been…
Let us praise Toni Morrison
By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH Toni Morrison sadly passed away Aug. 5,…
The 1920 Ocoee massacre
Residents of the town of Ocoee, Fla., before the 1920 massacre By Attorney Jacqueline…
Segregation in America
A young black man drinks from a segregated water cooler in 1939 at a streetcar terminal…
Monroe Nathan Work: An unsung hero of lynching history
Monroe Nathan Work By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH It is incredible how…
A brief history of slavery in New York
In 1991, excavators for a new federal office building in Manhattan unearthed the remains…
Lynching as a system of terror in America
Teenager Jesse Washington was lynched and burned in Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916. By…
The idea of reparations for slavery
The Freedmen’s Bureau was created to give legal title for Field Order 15—better known…
Africans in Cuba: Yesterday, today and tomorrow
By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH The Europeans, especially Spain,…
400 years of movement and migration
At least 12 million Africans, over the course of about 250 years, were kidnapped and sold…
Inventor of the blood bank and savior of the Red Cross
Drew pioneered America’s first large-scale blood bank during World War II By Attorney…
The long journey to the 13th Amendment
By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH The 13th Amendment to the United States…
ASALH celebrates the life of Arthur Ashe
Dr. Raymond Arsenault and Judge Charles Williams BY FRANK DROUZAS, Staff Writer ST.…
Mass incarceration of African Americans
By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH In a 2019 post by the American Civil…
Why we need to know about our history?
Nine months before Rosa Parks, there was a young 15-year-old teenager named Claudette…