When Lexie Webster integrated an Indianapolis neighborhood in 1963, fences went up. She spent her 96 years breaking down ...

In 1787, the U.S. Constitution was amended to include the Fugitive Slave Clause. This clause made it illegal for enslaved ...

In the United States, power often comes down to documentation. For centuries, those in power have used documents to police ...

As a six-foot-four Black man and a union rep, Bates’ grandfather naturally stood out and attracted attention…some of it the kind a traveler of color wouldn’t always want in a time and a place where ...

The search is continuing for more than 160 people believed to be missing in Texas days after a destructive wall of water killed over 100 people. But questions remain about ...

President Abraham Lincoln, with young son Tad and Senator Charles Sumner, salutes a detachment of African-American Union troops in Richmond, Virginia at the end of the American Civil War. Published in ...