Smithsonian Magazine18d
From the Antebellum South to the Civil Rights Movement, Black American Women Have Long Told Their Stories Through Quilts
In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...
WTOP News1mon
Where 20 Black Civil Rights Leaders Went to College
Here’s where 20 Black civil rights leaders went to college. Martin Luther King Jr. King spearheaded the American Civil Rights ... Mississippi during the Civil War, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was ...
Chris Evans’ Captain America Wasn’t Expected to Save Us. So Why Is Anthony Mackie’s?
There’s an American desire for Black people to lead the charge when it comes to effecting change, and now even a Black ...
KVUE22d
When formerly enslaved people relocated to and made their homes in Austin at the end of the Civil War
AUSTIN, Texas — Austin’s Black population grew steadily after the end of the American Civil War in the 1860s, and most lived in small communities called "Freedmen's towns" that were located ...
Maxine Waters: Trump is ‘working towards a civil war’
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is accusing President Trump of seeking to start a civil war. The California Democrat, a longtime adversary of Trump, said the early flood of presidential policies — ...
Washingtonian on MSN10d
After Decades, the Full African American Civil War Memorial Museum Is Finally Coming
On July 18, 1863, one of the first all-Black army regiments to serve in the Civil War stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina.
USA Today22d
Mississippi has rich Black history. See Civil Rights sites, where blues music was born
Black History Month is a time to celebrate African-American culture ... Where: 140 Lower Woodville Road, Natchez. Why: The Civil War halted construction on what would have been one the most ...
The Grio23d
Most influential Black politicians in American history
From the first Black ... American person to enter either chamber of Congress. Revels, born in North Carolina, was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. During the Civil War ...