In 2023, let us revisit the need for ‘Freedom Schools’
In 1964, during the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee’s (SNCC) “Freedom…
Jacqueline Hubbard Esq.
The end of Reconstruction and its continuing effects
The debate over Reconstruction and the Freedmen’s Bureau was nationwide. This 1866…
Remembrance: A panel discussion on racial terror lynchings
Pictured here is a postcard of the 1920 Duluth, Minn., lynchings. Two of the victims are…
1877: The end of Reconstruction and the beginning of American apartheid
An 1867 illustration depicting Black people participating in a New Orleans election…
The Black coaches of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Harold Goodwin, assistant head coach and running game coordinator; Keith Armstrong,…
Mass incarceration of African Americans
By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH In a 2019 post by the American Civil…
The importance of the Declaration of Independence to African-American liberation
Frederick Douglass called the drafters of the Declaration ‘hypocrites’ for…
Plessy v. Ferguson: The beginning of Jim Crow
By Jacqueline Hubbard After Reconstruction, the United States Supreme Court on May 18,…
Voting restrictions upheld by Supreme Court
BY Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, ASALH President The American Civil Liberties Union…
Black higher education after the Civil War
After Harrison Reed was elected governor of Florida in 1868, he appointed an African…
First Ladies in African-American History honored
BY HOLLY KESTENIS Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG – The Dr. Carter G. Woodson African…