During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

Robert Colby is a historian at the University of Mississippi. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

White dread of race-mixing girded the remorseless segregation of the Jim Crow era that followed the end of slavery. Trump warns Americans that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” ...

The ongoing legal challenges to President Trump's order highlight the complexities of constitutional interpretation ...

In 1958, Williams chaired the Committee to Combat Racial Injustice, which organized to defend two Black boys, ages 7 and 9, ...

Attorney General Alan Wilson has thrown himself into the debate over birthright citizenship following President Donald ...

Inside the B&O Railroad Museum, you'll find centuries' worth of railroad history. Much of it is also Black history.

From the site of Durham’s Black Wall Street, where Black-owned businesses thrived, to the site of the state’s oldest ...