During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

The Historic Jamestown Society and Mendenhall Homeplace are in possession of an historic piece of Black history.

Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the Black genealogists helping to unearth it.

Feb. 7 will mark 160 years since Illinois struck down laws that kept free Black people from entering the state and gave those already in the state just 10 days to get out. WGN's Micah Materre reports ...

Black History Month honors the achievements and struggles of African Americans throughout U.S. history, and it’s a great time ...

New defense secretary Pete Hegseth has canceled all cultural awareness months in the Department of Defense, including Black ...

A number of federal agencies have banned celebrations related to MLK Jr. Day, Women's History Month and other such ...

Black History Month was recognized nationally in 1976, when President Gerald Ford designated the month as a time for the ...