In the ensuing months and years, arguments by African Americans who visited Lincoln—and the president’s willingness to listen—would change the course of history. While many historians and ...

To mark this month’s opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture ... missionary to travel overseas. During the Civil War, African-American soldiers fighting for ...

President Trump targets museums he said push divisive ideology. Activists and historians say he's trying to erase the ...

Understanding the history of African Americans is crucial to understanding ... World War I and the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Students learn about how the life of an enslaved person ...

It seems like we’re headed in the direction where there’s even an attempt to deny that the institution of slavery even existed." ...

In 2016, former President Barack Obama opened the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

Angelou’s eloquent prose and powerful voice made her a celebrated literary figure and a key figure in the civil rights movement. She collaborated with leaders and African American history makers ...

Agencies are scrambling to comply with President Trump’s executive orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion.

The 1940s was an important decade in the campaign for civil rights. Many of the events ... of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), an African-American trade union. Randolph and his fellow porters were ...