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Brenda Travis of McComb, Mississippi, encountered the dangers of merely existing in Jim Crow’s America as a child after witnessing h...

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination not only further ignited the civil rights movement, but it also inspired students in...

While the Civil Rights Movement continued to spread across the US and the feminist movement evolved, one group felt neither movement...

Despite continued exclusionary practices, Black Americans slowly but surely made their way into the workforce after the Civil War. W...

From the inception of the United States, Black soldiers have answered the call to serve on the front lines. And in 1944, the US gove...

In 1730, Job Ben Solomon — a Senegalese man and active slave trader — was captured during an excursion in the Gambian River region....

As Black families left the South, their migration allowed them to bring their religion and musical practices along with them. But it...

As the US economy began to boom after World War II, so did the demand for alternate means of transportation. While personal car usag...

In 2019, researchers were able to properly authenticate the last known slave ship to enter the United States illegally. That ship, T...

The lynching of Emmett Till in 1955 became a pivotal point for race relations in the United States. Instead of sitting by silently,...