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Despite footage of police officers beating the late Rodney King in 1991, justice, for many in South Central Los Angeles, was not ser...

After joining the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X became known as a human rights activist whose teachings led the charge of black progres...

In 1872, Booker T. Washington traveled 500 miles on foot to the Hampton Institute in Virginia. That journey, in turn, laid the found...

Shirley Chisholm is a political icon who paved the way for politics as we know it today. As an active participant for women’s rights...

….became a War Hero, and Served as a U.S. Congressman Robert Smalls was born into slavery and pushed into fighting for the Con...

In 1865, after the north won the Civil War, the government opened the Freedman’s Bank. This institution was geared towards nearly fo...

Isabella Baumfree was born into slavery in the late 18th century. Despite this, she’d go on to prove that enslavement was only a sta...

Harriet Tubman is one of the greatest freedom fighters to exist. Enslaved and enraged, Tubman committed to not only freeing herself,...

Born into slavery as Ida B. Wells in 1862, she was a pioneer of modern investigative journalism during the Reconstruction Era. After...

Fresh off an oil-boom, the black residents of Greenwood, Okla. built a booming community known as The Negro Wall Street. But in May...