hidden history

9 Things You May Not Know About the Little Rock Nine

New Orleans’ freedom fighters remember 1963 March on Washington

Why Guy Bluford Is So Important to the African-American Community

Dr. Marie Maynard Daly, the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in Chemistry

The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II

Oppression in the kitchen, delight in the dining room: The story of Caesar, an enslaved chef and chocolatier in Colonial Virginia

Ever heard of ‘drapetomania’? Why every American needs to learn about this ‘disease’

Medical exploitation of Black people in America goes far beyond the cells stolen from Henrietta Lacks that produced modern day miracles

Sports Legend Althea Gibson Served Up Tennis History When She Broke Through in 1950

During his time in Ireland, Frederick Douglass was captivated by Daniel O’Connell

Making Afro-German history visible

The Thibodaux Massacre Left 60 African-Americans Dead and Spelled the End of Unionized Farm Labor in the South for Decades

Keith Richards and Eric Clapton worshipped her solos, and Elvis idolized her sound: how Sister Rosetta Tharpe became an electric guitar trailblazer

Remembering André Watts, the American pianist who opened doors of possibility

Slavery’s descendants: America’s family secret

New Exhibition Tells the Story of the ‘Clotilda,’ the Last Known American Slave Ship

June 14, 1953: Martha White refuses to give up her seat on a bus, sparking the Baton Rouge bus boycott

The 1873 Colfax Massacre Set Back the Reconstruction Era