Many historically Black colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, were created in the early to mid 1800's, some in the wake of hundreds of years of slavery and a period when Black people could be ...

HBO's period piece drama 'The Gilded Age' has been increasing the complexity of its depictions of the Black aristocracy in ...

Desecrated 1800s Black Cemetery Found With Graves Still Intact. The gravesite remains endangered, despite comprising of free and formerly enslaved Black people.

They say that you can’t know where you are going unless you know where you’ve been. History helps shape who we are. It’s often hard to take a look at ...

Born in Mobile in 1845, Charles Octavius Boothe’s seminal work, The Cyclopedia of Colored Baptists of Alabama, was first published 30 years after the Civil War.

The play, inspired partially by The House of Bernarda Alba is about free, Black Creole women who became millionaires in New Orleans during the 1800s, despite slavery, sexism and more.

Many historically Black colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, were created in the early to mid 1800's, some in the wake of hundreds of years of slavery and a period when Black people could be ...