A possible lesson of Terry McAuliffe's win in Virginia is that if the Republicans continue a party of open racism that wants to restrict people of color's voting privileges, it.
Edward Bland’s 1959 documentary The Cry of Jazz is one of the most remarkable films I’ve ever seen. An early statement of the black nationalism that would become famous in.
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the assault on Fort Wagner, when the African-American 54th Massachusetts so bravely tried to take the fort guarding Charleston Harbor.
On July 17, 1944, a munitions explosion at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California killed 320 soldiers, mostly African-Americans loading munitions onto ships. This spurred them to.
This weekend was the anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, one of the most horrifying episodes of organized violence against African-Americans after emancipation. Linda Christensen, a high school teacher.
It can't be stated often enough that slavery was inexorably tied with the rise of capitalism in the United States. Historian Walter Johnson: Without slavery, however, the survey maps of.
On December 11, 1886, the Colored Farmers' Alliance was established in Lovelady in Houston County, Texas. This organization may have accomplished little in concrete gains, but it represented the brave.
On December 6, 1865, the legislature of Georgia ratified the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, ending slavery. Arguably, the single most important event in the history of American labor, the.
