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The Forgotten Story Of How Freed African Americans Helped Create Memorial Day

Blight's suspicions were confirmed when, after a talk he gave at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in 2001, an older Black woman approached him to discuss his lec...

By the Numbers African Americans Should be Extinct

*If history were told from the vantage point of the oppressed rather than the oppressor, the American narrative would read very differently. It would not begin in 1492, nor would i...

250 Years Of Black History & Enterprise: On This Day

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The surprising history of Black representation in Congress

It took the Voting Rights Act in 1965, and its revisions decades later, to restore Black congressional representation in the South after Reconstruction.

The History Of Black GOP Leaders

The GOP's complex relationship with Black Americans, from early civil rights to recent controversies over race and identity.

How Ona Judge Staines’ legacy tests how America remembers history

Ona Judge, the formerly enslaved woman who dared to run away from George Washington, is immortalized on the 230-year anniversary

The Black Roots of Memorial Day: The Powerful Story America Often Forgets

*While many Americans view Memorial Day as simply the unofficial start of summer — marked by barbecues, beach trips, and sales — the holiday has much more profound origins rooted i...

The Inspiring Stories Of 9 Black Heroes Who Risked It All To Fight For America

From the Civil War to World War II, these remarkable Black heroes from American history fought for their country — even when they didn't have equal rights at home. The post The Ins...

Historical DNA Links Colonial Graves to 1.3 Million Living Relatives and May Have Identified the Colony’s Seco...

Learn how researchers used DNA and 23andMe to connect 17th-century Maryland colonists to more than 1.3 million living people and potentially identify the colony’s second governor.

250 Years of Amnesia: The Debt America Owes Haiti

*America, as you approach your 250th year, you celebrate expansion, power, and global dominance. You reflect on the Founding Fathers, wars won, and economic triumphs. But there is...

Live Class – Toussaint Louverture: The Name They Did Not Teach You

He was born into slavery in 1743. He defeated three empires. He founded the first Black republic in the modern world. He authored a constitutional document more advanced than the [...

10 Books About African Americans Reclaiming the South

Between 1910 to 1970, millions of African Americans left the South in search of greater opportunities for freedom, rights, and economic mobility. Due to sheer scale, this human mov...

The Black Catholic woman whose defiance on a bus predated Rosa Parks' action

NCR Book Club: Riding Into History details Sarah Keys Evans' fateful bus ride from New Jersey to North Carolina in 1952 that led to the Interstate Commerce Commission's rejection o...

Pastor J. Edgar Boyd: The Power of the Black Vote

*Long before the United States became a nation, Black people helped build its foundation. Black men and women, some free and many enslaved, cleared land, tilled soil, built roads a...

Why Black Americans Can Celebrate Cinco de Mayo

Cinco de Mayo is a celebration of resistance against oppression, deeply resonating with Black Americans' shared history of struggle.

Advocates celebrate 230th anniversary of Ona Judge's escape from enslavement by George Washington

From her footprints in Philadelphia to her face in New Hampshire, advocates for telling the whole truth of American history are celebrating Ona Judge and her daring escape from sla...

アフリカ史、どう学ぶ？　現地で進む歴史教育の「脱植民地化」と反発

In Washington, Black cemeteries suffer decay, erasure

At the historic cemeteries of Mount Zion Cemetery and the Female Union Band Society, preservationists are working to restore neglected graves and recover the identities of thousand...

Philadelphia To Observe ‘Ona Judge Day’ May 21

The resolution encourages local schools and cultural institutions to utilize May 21 as a day of learning.

THE JAXSON | Jacksonville’s forgotten emancipation history  

For Jacksonville, the story of emancipation is especially significant. During the Civil War and Reconstruction, the city became both a pathway to freedom and a center for some of F...