Alexis Williams says her son was made to play the role of a "dictator" during a third grade lesson on slavery. Chicago Public ...

A New York school district is under fire after a student and parent filed a complaint over a classroom history lesson about ...

The renaming of the press gallery, spearheaded by Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., was conceived over the last year after the ...

Chocolate has played a pivotal role in American milestones, from the Revolutionary War to the Apollo missions.

The designation was initially advanced in the White House by President Gerald Ford in 1976, and the notion of recognizing the ...

Historians believe Hamilton was the first free man of color to live in the Temple area.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, reports emerged of women and girls being trafficked across borders into forced ...

Historians, faith leaders, politicians and tour guides denounced the federal government’s removal of the display, as the city ...

Twin brothers Larry and Kelly Ganges grew up outside of Trenton with people constantly mispronouncing their last name.

As we commemorate 100 years of celebrating Black History, we face new levels of erasure and displacement. Carter G. Woodson first created Negro History Week in February 1926, during the Harlem ...

Sherry Lynn Blackwell, a Las Vegas-based artist, turned her living room into a makeshift museum of her family history. As ...

The Blairsville Underground Railroad Museum shares the stories of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction and beyond ...