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.

Thousands of people tour the grounds of the picturesque Biltmore Estate each year -- never realizing they're walking in the footsteps of a lost community, where Black men and women freed from ...

Heat can drive people to wild decisions. On one blazing, stormy night, a family of Black women struggles with freedom, voodoo, and their fates in Plowshares Theatre Co.’s production of Marcus ...

Salt Lake researcher explains controversy surrounding 1800s Black-owned newspaper. by Jamie McGriff, KUTV. ... “With this edition we present to the good people of Utah, ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Several Black-owned newspapers existed during the late 1800s in Utah, two of which had a rivalry between political opinions. Some of the papers were regional newspapers ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Enslaved Black people were banned from reading and writing and even those who had their freedom couldn't always access formal schooling, so African Americans began founding colleges of ...