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Topics include: “How Doc James Pappaw Used His Medical Knowledge To Win His Freedom From Slavery” “James Lafayette: New Kent’s Revolutionary War Hero,” the Rosenwald schools in Charles City, “John Custis IV and his Slaves,” colored school history in New Kent and “Strategies and Sources for Finding Enslaved Ancestors.”

For Bennie Thompson, the invasion of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was a significant moment of déjà vu. From his perch in the House gallery above the chamber

Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka, Kansas is expanding to sites in four other states and getting a new designation

What started as a way to foster boating in the Black community has grown into something much more. Learn the history of the Seafarers.

After Tyson and Regina Bates put their kids to bed, they begin a nightly routine of reviewing paperwork in the exhausting process of attempting to buy a historic Black high

HOUSTON – Before the Civil Rights Movement and the integration of public schools, and even predating World War II, there was the Chickasaw County Colored School.

During Black History Month, learn the impact Hudson Valley residents, trailblazers have had on our communities thru public art installations.

Ethel Tompkins was at the 60th anniversary celebration of the Hoxie School District integration when she was asked a simple, but poignant question. She…

Fulbright’s apologists like to claim that the senator’s sins during the Central High Crisis were ones of omission rather than commission — that he played no significant role in stoking segregationist outrage, but rather simply did little to stop it. But they are wrong. As an author and signatory of the Southern Manifesto, Fulbright provided a false cover of legitimacy to segregationists and emboldened them to defy the Brown decision. 

A retired Milligan University professor has completed work on a book that he hopes will call attention to an important figure in Johnson City’s development as a regional hub for education, faith and medicine: Dr. Hezekiah B. Hankal. “Hezekiah Hankal took it upon himself to uplift our community’s African Americans during the era when Jim Crow laws severely restricted their lives and their opportunities to get ahead in the world,” Donald Shaffer said recently. “Dr. Hankal...