A just-released book about Harpers Ferry's rich history relates how a Black family during the Jim Crow era made their mark in ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota History Center's newest exhibit hopes to show Black Americans' fight for racial equity and full citizenship in the years following the Civil War. Opening Saturday, the ...

The teaching of Black history in segregated schools has a long history. After emancipation, freed people in the American South flocked to newly established schools to learn to read and write but also ...

Learn how digital redlining perpetuates racial discrimination in housing markets, undermining fair housing and hindering Black homeownership.

BIG RAPIDS, Mich. — Ferris State University faculty and staff gathered to break ground on a new museum that will house the school's massive collection of racist materials. The university's Jim Crow ...

Slavery existed in early Erie County, yet it is a topic rarely or only briefly addressed in published histories. It's also a part of the ongoing national debate on critical race theory — the academic ...

Do you smell it? That foul odor that floats in the air, when something you thought was dead is unearthed. That’s the smell of ole man Jim Crow crawling back into our daily lives. Documenting those ...

Half a century before Ruby Bridges was born, a crowd of children defied school segregation in the town of Sheffield, Mass. It all began in the fall of 1903, when some of the white parents complained ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Workers remove the top portion of the Confederate Memorial in Forest Park on Thursday, June 8, 2017, as the city moves to remove ...

The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is calling for Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) to apologize to Black Americans for his recent comments that insinuated they were better off under Jim Crow laws.