National Watermelon Month celebrates a refreshing treat, but the history of the popular fruit reveals how a symbol of Black liberation and economic success was transformed into a racist caricature.
While some see July 4th as a symbol of national pride and possibility, others see it as a celebration of a freedom that has never fully included them.
Donald Trump's executive order seeks to limit birthright citizenship in an effort to further his white nationalist agenda.
Robert Smalls escaped slavery by commandeering a Confederate ship and was the first Black man to serve in South Carolina’s state legislature.
Governor Jeff Landry renamed the Louisiana National Guard training center after a man who enslaved Black people.
Dr. Errol Henderson, most notably in one of his more recent works, The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized builds on DuBois’s work, as well as that of Alain Locke, makes the argument we most need to know: We were our own liberators.
For those who aren't Civil War history buffs and are unfamiliar with Davis, he was the president of the Confederate States of America who said that Black people are “fitted expressly for servitude.”
Conservatives can't be honest about what the Civil War was.
Nikki Haley's non-answer about what started the Civil War upheld a partisan tradition.
In 1877 the Black town of Nicodemus was born. Reverend W. H. Smith and other freed slaves recruited more than 300 ex-slaves to Nicodemus to start a new life.
A South Carolina GOP gubernatorial candidate won't apologize for comments denying the central role of slavery for the Civil War.