In senior year in my boys New England boarding school English classes we studied American literature. Or, in 21st Century grievance diction, we were brainwashed with the American Renaissance.

The live bands that HBCUs Albany State and Central State brought to Rochester was just as entertaining as the football game.

This column was submitted by Evangeline Cessna, Local History Librarian at the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library. This ...

By the Civil War, America had more capital tied up in slaves than in all other properties and businesses combined, including ...

Abraham Lincoln issued the "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation on this day in history, Sept. 22, 1862, announcing the slaves would be freed on Jan. 1, 1863.

Frederick Douglass quarterback Jaxon Strautman secures the ball as he breaks through Corbin’s defense for a touchdown in the ...

Educators are launching an inquiry into how the SC Department of Education decided to introduce educational materials from ...

U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy assured state election officials Monday he'll work with them to handle their warnings of ...

Elections are the foundation of representative democracy. Your right to have a say at the ballot box was paid for with blood ...

Black women are bedrock of the Democratic Party. What would it look like if their needs and lives were made central too?

That in turn is redefining the very idea of what American fashion means in ways that have little to do with what is happening ...

But instead of living a life as a slave, he escaped bondage and became an influential anti-slavery lecturer and writer. He ...