American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...

In 1857, an 18-year-old female slave, Lear Green, who had been repeatedly raped and forced into prostitution by her white owner, one James Noble, was surreptitiously placed in a wooden seaman’s chest ...

All over the world, community stories, customs and beliefs have been passed down from generation to generation. This folkore is used by elders to teach family and friends about their collective ...

"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history." — Carter G. Woodson There are many things from ...

Pennsylvania city files lawsuit seeking temporary injunction after information boards explaining the lives of George ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., defended the state's new African-American history curriculum that has sparked controversy in an NBC Nightly News interview. Critics of Florida's new curriculum focused on ...

"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history." — Carter G. Woodson There are many things from ...

The truth behind the myths America still protects.

Forgetting after all, is a side effect of trauma. But one moment he remembers clearly is his mother, Adele, sitting him down when he was in middle school, telling him that he was the descendent of a ...

Growing up in tiny Maringouin, Jessica Tilson often heard that everyone in town was somehow related. The 34-year-old Southern University student brushed off the statements as just a colloquial ...