The story of Robert Smalls stands as a powerful reminder that Black history is not a side note to the American story but is ...

"We are far enough into this nightmare to know that it is not only undocumented individuals who get picked up by what we sort of think ICE is, but also American citizens who are in the wrong place ...

Emily Yellin discusses her collaborative memoir with the late James Lawson, ‘the architect of the nonviolent movement in America’ ...

For Black History Month, docuseries 'Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History' parses what has unified and divided the ...

A former slave who commandeered a Confederate warship and sailed his family to freedom, is one of the greatest American ...