Smithsonian Magazine8h
The Railroad Workers Behind the Civil Rights Movement
Pullman porters did more than carry bags, they paved the way for higher education opportunities, the professional working ...
How Actively Black Created a Meaningful Collab With Civil Rights Photographer Cecil Williams
The Los Angeles-based athleisure brand is donating proceeds from the collection to Williams’s museum. Cecil Williams in front of a museum display for his famous photograph in Orangeburg, South ...
Thomas Jefferson Claimed He Introduced Bill to Free Enslaved Blacks 100 Years Before Civil War. Was He Lying?
Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...
Honoring Black History: New memorial design chosen to commemorate the first African American students who desegregated ETSU
A new design has been chosen to commemorate the first five African American students who desegregated East Tennessee State ...
The Washington Informer6d
Bill to Honor Civil War’s Black Soldiers Reintroduced, Coinciding with Black History Month
The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...