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College presidents worked both at the forefront and behind the scenes in fighting for African Americans’ civil rights in the 1960s.
Plantation museums could be ideal venues for students to learn about the nation’s history of race-based slavery, but only if they stop whitewashing the horrors of what took place on their grounds.
Ensuring that every Black youth sees Back teachers at school is one critical piece of addressing systemic racism in schools.
With a few notable exceptions, public monuments across the United States are overwhelmingly white and male. A movement is slowly growing to tell a more inclusive history of the American experience.
We can’t judge the Roman period by our standards and assume that it was predominantly White.
Born in Blackness by Howard W. French is a towering work. It argues that, because of gold and slavery, Africa is central to creating the modern world.
By looking back at my dad’s music collection I understand more clearly that the music I listened to as a child shaped my personality, destiny and view of the world.
The lie of the land: Britain’s hidden legacies of slavery in Eugene Palmer’s paintings.
James McCune Smith was the first African American to receive a medical doctorate from a university. He dedicated his life to fighting injustice.
Nottingham Black Archive is recovering the stories of those who made important contributions to the national story of Black British history. The UK needs more like it.
Abolition in the UK tends to focus on the work of Yorkshireman William Wilberforce but there were many Black abolitionists whose tireless work has been forgotten.
Baker will be the sixth woman, first entertainer and first Black woman to enter after a successful petition from her family and fans.
Black Americans’ contributions to some of the country’s most iconic dishes and spirits are finally starting to be recognized in the media and in museum exhibitions.
A professor of urban education argues that an epidemic of majority-Black public school closings is hurting already vulnerable communities across the country.
For over a century, Black activists have used punctuation marks to subtly challenge official accounts of events.
More Americans are learning about the 1921 massacre in the prosperous Black section of Tulsa known as the ‘Black Wall Street.’ For Gregory Fairchild, it is a part of his family history.
It has been an uphill battle to make the case for Black studies courses and programs in Canadian universities.
Though COVID-19 has killed Black Americans at nearly twice the rate as white Americans, Black people are the least likely racial group to say they’re eager to get the vaccine.
Mapping is one way African Americans fight for equality and help each other navigate a racially hostile landscape.
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