The Historic New Orleans Collection (HNOC) and the New Orleans Public Library REACH Center (NOPL) will present “A New Door ...

Willett Hancock, curator of exhibitions at the Matheson History Museum, whose senior capstone at UF focused on Union Academy, said the school’s success after the Freedmen’s Bureau left, was a sign of ...

Allow us to introduce you to Sanford Castleman, who became the ancestor of one of Connersville earliest basketball players.

During Black History Month, it is important to look at how far the education system for Black people has come. When slavery ...

Civil War “Reconstruction” as a time when well-meaning Republicans tried to aid newly-freed slaves who were being oppressed ...

In recognition of Black History Month in February, Fort Bend County Libraries will present a family-history research program on the "The Freedmen's Bureau & Freedman's Bank Records" on Wednesday, Febr ...

In recognition of Black History Month in February, Fort Bend County Libraries will present a family-history research program on the “The Freedmen’s Bureau & Freedman’s Bank Records” on Wednesday, Febr ...

Since President Trump returned to the White House, he’s issued executive orders that target diversity, equity and inclusion ...

Bowie State University, Maryland's oldest Historically Black College and University, got its start in Baltimore.

AFRICAN AMERICAN GENEALOGY CLASS: The Howland Library Branch, 9095 East Market St., will offer an African American Genealogy class 3 p.m. Tuesday for adults. Learn to trace your family history using ...

Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, one of the great White heroes of Black history, offers his famous amendment to the Freedman’s Bureau bill to use land confiscated from former slave owners as well as some ...

In the late summer of 1865, a few months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox ...