The book’s title, In the Light of Dawn, references the Dawn Settlement, a hopeful name given to a community founded largely ...

The performance from the 37-year-old rapper sought to tell a story of black Americans and their place within US history, and ...

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.

The term comes from the 1852 novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a slave perceived as too passive toward the white community, particularly the family who owns the plantation where ...

Jim Crow, a term drawn from a racist caricature, describes a long period of segregation and racial violence in the United ...

Museum London played host to a panel discussion of six museum curators and historians who shared details about the work their ...

Hurricanes and disease have already taken a tremendous toll on those fragrant trees, not to mention development demand for ...

In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

Harriet Beecher Stowe, who helped start the Civil War with her novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” moved to a cabin in a Florida town ...

If you have a disagreement with your neighbor today, you might head to small-claims court. In 19th-century rural America, ...