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A history lesson at a Virginia school went awry when a teacher called up only African-American students to take part…
The United States third-largest life insurance company New York Life opened in the spring of 1845 and had a board…
As we try to make sense of the results of the 2016 presidential election, many are looking at the Electoral…
In a piece for Time magazine, Tavis Smiley describes the moment a student asked him if black people could ever…
Whoopi Goldberg got emotional while educating her co-hosts at "The View" about slavery and African Americans earning the right to…
A skull that is believed to have belonged to Nat Turner has been turned over to Turner's descendants.
Hazel Ingram will cast one of New York's 29 Electoral College votes in this upcoming election.
Ava DuVernay's "13th," which premieres on Netflix Oct. 7, is a historical masterpiece that explores the 13th Amendment's "original sin."
On Thursday, Yale University will honor its first black student by naming a divinity school classroom after him.
What does it say about a country that still names its schools after those who kidnapped black people and chained…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Georgetown University will give preference in admissions to the descendants of slaves owned by the Maryland Jesuits…
Just when we thought the idea of trading Stacey Dash in an imaginary racial draft couldn't possibly come up again…
Some people are complaining that Hollywood is producing too many movies about American slavery. But that’s not the problem. There can
WASHINGTON (AP) — A vast majority of white Americans say there should not be reparations for African-American descendants of slaves,…
Heidi Cruz is the latest human being to compare something that has nothing to do with slavery...to slavery...
After Attorney General Loretta Lynch compared the North Carolina bathroom law to Jim Crow laws, former presidential candidate Ben Carson…
Nearly 20 percent of Donald Trump supporters disagreed with the freeing of slaves in the South after the end of…