This video traces America’s immigration story from the earliest Indigenous societies and European colonization to mass migration, restrictive quota laws, and modern reforms. It explains how each wave, ...

The public protest is among several 'firsts' that the historical commission is recognizing this month as part of its yearlong ...

The administration took a crowbar to a site that focused on George Washington and slavery. But can the contradictions of the ...

Rebellious Africans: How Caribbean slavery came to the mainland -- Free trade in Africans? Did the Glorious Revolution unleash the slave trade? -- Revolt! Africans conspire with the French and Spanish ...

Perhaps the least commented upon feature of the dystopian Trump banners adorning parts of Washington D.C. is the red, white, ...

The boomerang is already in flight in the U.S., a sociologist says.

From the early days of the United States’ existence, when an ex-slave Godfrey Wilmore settled a tract of land in the ...

Attorney and civil rights activist Michael Coard explains the history of the memorial, the latest in the lawsuit over it, and ...

Africans — enslaved and free — helped shape New York City in the 18th century. That fact was brought home to New Yorkers in 1991, when the literal bones of the city’s pioneer Black citizens resurfaced ...

Nearly eight years after the Florida Legislature approved a memorial recognizing the inhumanity of slavery, a dedication ...

On March 27, 1829, a wealthy white planter and businessman named Richard Fordham purchased four enslaved African Americans ...

The Black historian Carter G. Woodson — who dedicated his career to the study of Black life and history — responded 100 years ...