When Rev. Leroy Haynes Jr. stepped up to the pulpit at Emmanuel Church in Portland this weekend, it wasn’t to give a sermon ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they ...

Lee, whom President Barack Obama recognized for her work during the civil rights movement, wrote "At the Foot of the Edmund ...

The Justice Department is investigating whether leaders in the Black Lives Matter movement defrauded donors who contributed ...

Dia de los Muertos events honoring the dead have a long history, but in Arizona they are tied to the more recent Chicano ...

In 1862, jewelry engraver and amateur photographer William H. Mumler was developing a self-portrait in his Boston studio when a ghostly image began to surface. Just below his own image in the photo ...

The 20th century was about the people who dared to think differently and act boldly. From mind-bending discoveries to ...

From the Revolution through present-day Civil Rights, the Richmond area tells history’s story. As a longtime history writer, ...

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A local Republican leader in Kentucky shared a social media video depicting former President Barack Obama and his wife as apes, a historically racist trope that has ignited a ...