Warren Clay Coleman was considered “the richest Black man in America” in 1900 by opening the first Black-owned textile mill ...

Built by former slaves, the mill was so famous that W.E.B. DuBois included pictures of the building in an exhibit at the ...

This is the third in a series of columns about Black history as the nation observes Black History Month. The slaves who ...

But Trayvon will forever remain 17 because he was a Black teenager ... about the white men who tortured, beat and shot Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy, then tried to hide their barbarity by tying his ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

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Shutterstock Walking the Mississippi Civil Rights Trail Mississippi was one of the epicenters of the civil rights struggle in ...

Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

“🤰🏽💙 #3,” Cassie wrote in the caption alongside black-and-white photos of her showing off her baby bump while joined by Fine, 31, and their two daughters Frankie, 5, and ...

Belle da Costa Greene, who was JP Morgan’s librarian, became a lively fixture at Gilded Age mansions, country retreats, ...

A look at key moments at the White House’s signature outdoor setting amid reports that it may be turned into a ...