NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Tamara Lanier who, following a six-year legal battle with Harvard University, won the ownership to images of her enslaved descendants.

The Douglas County Historical Society lost a $50,000 grant due to Trump's executive orders. The Lawrence community chipped in ...

An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a White man who seized a Black family and forced ...

From a tribute for U.S. Colored Troops to a community line dance and step show, several events are planned to commemorate ...

The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the ...

“Let us look to America,” Tocqueville wrote, “not in order to make a servile copy of the institutions that she has ...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has issued a new order that encourages visitors to national parks—including those in Texas—to ...

Gov. Wes Moore, the nation’s only Black governor, recently caused a stir in the movement for reparations in his state.

A delegation of African Americans from the Teaching Arts Institute (TAI), Bolton, USA, and their counterparts from the ...

The Supreme Court recently ruled that maternity leave is a constitutional right, even in the case of a third child. But how ...

The first grand-scale “redemption of the first-born sons” happens in Bamidbar, which means “In the wilderness.” Bamidbar is ...

Ever since the British came and imposed their Raj, one way of escaping that slavery was by obtaining an education. It not ...