DOUGLAS COUNTY — The Douglas County Historical Society is sponsoring a presentation by Dr. Bob Zybach on his research into the life of Letitia Carson, a freed slave who accomplished unusual things for ...

The day after Election Day, Black Americans across nearly a dozen states started receiving text messages telling them they ...

In the June 3, 1845, issue of Cassius Marcellus Clay’s The True American ... 1800 to 1840. During the early years of the era, ...

A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds ...

The earliest record of an African-American in the Gem State dates back to the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1805. York, Clark’s slave, was part of the expedition and attracted attention from the ...

Oct. 25 (UPI) --King Charles III acknowledged a "painful" past of Britain and the royal family's profiting from human slavery, but did not support financial reparations payments at a Samoan summit ...

From the early 1800s until the 1970s ... In 2008, the US House of Representatives apologised for 246 years of African American slavery and the oppressive Jim Crow laws. The Senate passed a ...

FORT WORTH, Texas - Texas Christian University is reaching into the pages of history by honoring an enslaved couple from the 1800s ... former slaves who became trusted workers who compassionately ...

"If you're a foreign competitor working in China, [you're] using literal Chinese slave labor at $3 a day. An American middle class worker is never going to be able to compete on cost alone – we ...

PROVIDENCE – The colonial history of Providence is one intertwined with slavery. But much of the time ... printing press and house. By the 1800s, the printing press was gone, but it was still ...

Nearby Ghana, where Europeans also left behind several slave trading posts, has granted citizenship to more than a hundred African Americans since 2019, including the legendary Stevie Wonder earlier ...