From Raphael Warnock to Barack Obama, Black leaders have been mum. Better still, who exactly can we call on as Black leaders ...

Complete Guide to Booker T. Washington National Monument ... Booker never met him. -He wrote a book about his life called Up From Slavery. -He was married three times and had three children.

The year is 1821, and the Park Theatre, run by an impresario named Stephen Price, shuts down the Grove’s production twice, ...

The Grove drew not only a substantial Black audience several years before slavery was abolished ... freshmen in the theater program at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and ...

During the slavery era in the United States, enslaved Black workers made up nearly half the workforce ... the entire current-day book value of the four generations of slaves who lived in the ...

Gerald Norwood is a Wichita collector of "African Americana" — letters, legal papers and other artifacts of the black ...

It is one of thousands of such heart-rending pleas that appeared in papers across the country, starting even before slavery was abolished at the end of the Civil War and continuing as late as the ...

The president of Harvard made an unjust decision in 1890, against his own directives, that silently smoothed the path for multitudes of much worse injustices to come – injustices that tore through the ...

On April 26, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. visited three east side high schools in Cleveland, including Glenville. Audio of that speech had been recorded but sat undiscovered in the high school's ...

the criteria for a good book is simple: you won’t want to put it down. Luckily, the releases over the past year leave you spoiled for choice. From history novels to Booker Prize-nominated ...

Their route across the Atlantic was known as the “Middle Passage”, making up ... of slavery, the lifeblood of southern economies, was threatened by the federal government in Washington.