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Leading Historian and Historical Fiction Author Vanessa Riley provides insight on the Jane Austen adaptation, as well as the lives of 19th-century free Blacks.

The Wilmington massacre and coup of 1898 destroyed a once thriving multiracial democracy, killed dozens if not hundreds of innocent Black people, and left in its wake a community forever scarred.

We spoke to a range of writers, academics and historians to learn about the titles that inform them on key parts of Boston's history: from the Indigenous inhabitants to the American Revolution; from notorious political leaders to the busing crisis of the 1970s.

There is a threat facing one core historic site in Kinston, construction of a 55-acre interchange at the Wyse Fork Battlefield.

Delaney believed that Free and Freed Blacks could learn a great deal from Nigerian culture and history, and that they could draw upon these resources.

We can’t bear to come from nothing. We come from the dead, from our dead, in whatever mysterious ways we imagine that...

A new exhibition two years in the making, “Forces of Change: Enslaved and Free Blacks in New Canaan,” opens Friday, March 3 at the New Canaan Museum & Historical Society at 13 Oenoke Ridge. We met with the organization’s executive director, Nancy Geary, to get some background and an overview of the widely anticipated exhibition.  […]

African Americans have made significant contributions to the art of music in many genres across generations. One musical genre that has roots back to slavery is gospel music.

Tyre Nichols’s senseless death at the hands of the police presents America with another opportunity to do better by its Black citizens.

Dr. Learotha Williams, a veteran and college professor, relates the experience of Black men in America and police to the Tyre Nichols killing.