The history we learned in school often painted enslavement as a system people endured passively, waiting for abolition to ...

Black History Month is celebrated each February in the United States and Canada. Each nation’s history is filled with notable ...

While Americans celebrate Juneteenth and Independence Day separately, Jamaicans have a week-long “Emancipendence” celebration every August to commemorate slavery’s abolition in 1834 and national ...

Black History Month is celebrated each February in the United States and Canada. Each nation’s history is filled with notable contributions from black individuals, many of whom overcame incredible ...

An ambitious chronicle of the fight for freedom by enslaved Africans spans four centuries of escapes and uprisings in the Americas ...

Among the new books hitting the shelves for Black History Month are two novels about the legacy of Black American soldiers in ...

The Mexican-American War, fought to preserve slavery, helped bring on its destruction in the Civil War and imposed a border ...

“Hidden Figures” is the powerful true story of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and ...

Perhaps the least commented upon feature of the dystopian Trump banners adorning parts of Washington D.C. is the red, white, ...

During Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show, my family, a mix of Filipinos and Cubans, was a hot and beautiful mess. We deeply ...

Since President Donald Trump returned to office, his administration has been altering or removing displays across parks and museums. The post Trump administration removes slavery exhibit, historical ...

John Graves Simcoe’s ambition was to build Upper Canada (the future Ontario) into a prosperous province loyal to the British ...