Hamilton’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander not only led the Oklahoma City Thunder to their first championship but was awarded Finals ...

Hamilton helped create a New York organization that released Black slaves. Hamilton was one of the founding members of New York's Manumission Society, per the New York Historical Society .

Philip The eldest Hamilton was named after his grandfather, Revolutionary general Philip Schuyler. In 1801 he got into an argument with George Eacker at the Park Theater and was fatally wounded in ...

A descendant of Alexander Hamilton is dueling with critics who claim the Founding Father — and founder of The Post — was a slave owner.

Lincoln Alexander is remembered as Canada's first Black member of Parliament and federal cabinet minister, and Ontario's first Black lieutenant-governor. To those whose lives he touched, Alexander ...

Making sure young black students feel as if they belong is the focus of the Black Student Union at Alexander Hamilton High School in Cheviot Hills, led by Kenneth Turner.

Known as the black sheep of the family, James Hamilton deserted his wife and children when Alexander was 10. Several years later, Alexander transitioned from bastard to orphan when his mother died.

Alexander was Canada's first black member of the House of Commons and first black lieutenant governor of Ontario. His political service started as as MP for Hamilton West from 1968 to 1980. He ...

As the show indicates, Hamilton did support John Laurens’s 1779 plan to allow Black soldiers to fight in the Revolution (and many eventually did). But that’s as far as he went.