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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…

Portrait of the first Black senator, H. M. Revels of Mississippi (far left) and Black…

By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH No, Harriet Tubman has not yet been…

By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH Toni Morrison sadly passed away Aug. 5,…

Residents of the town of Ocoee, Fla., before the 1920 massacre By Attorney Jacqueline…

A young black man drinks from a segregated water cooler in 1939 at a streetcar terminal…

Monroe Nathan Work By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH It is incredible how…

Shown are Civil War reenactors at a Juneteenth celebration in Eastwoods Park in 1900 in…

In 1991, excavators for a new federal office building in Manhattan unearthed the remains…

BY JENNIFER GAMBLE-THEARD, M.ED., ASALH Historian Although Black History Month occurs…

Teenager Jesse Washington was lynched and burned in Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916. By…

The Freedmen’s Bureau was created to give legal title for Field Order 15—better known…

By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH The Europeans, especially Spain,…

At least 12 million Africans, over the course of about 250 years, were kidnapped and sold…

Located in Lalibela are the first Christian churches that were chiseled and cut into the…

João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço has served as the fourth president of Angola since…

Drew pioneered America’s first large-scale blood bank during World War II By Attorney…

By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH The 13th Amendment to the United States…