In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

President Donald Trump is attempting to dismantle the Department of Education. His efforts are history repeating itself.

Anthony Mackie, who stars in Marvel's "Captain America," said in a recent interview that his race has not hindered him from ...

Civil War was a turning point for the Marvel Cinematic Universe on many fronts. For one thing, it was the movie where the ...

Thousands of volunteers work to decode handwritten records from America's past. The National Archives program includes Revolutionary War pension files and Civil War documents.

There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...

Called “Black Memorabilia” and “Black Americana” at times, blackface characters and apparel have had a long run in America. Now, the African American Museum is confronting their legacy head-on.

Against such a backdrop, many of those rural residents began to organize what may have begun as an attempt to find economic advancement but eventually coalesced into what will become known as the ...