The 160th anniversary of Juneteenth was commemorated Thursday across the Twin Cities with block parties, festivals, concerts ...

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a ...

Sojourner Truth gave this speech in 1851 at the Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Several different versions exist, ...

W.E.B Du Bois was the first Black American to earn a doctorate from Harvard University in 1895 and became an important social ...

The school children of Jacksonville kept singing it; they went off to other schools and sang it; they became teachers and taught it to other children.

Sojourner Truth was a formerly enslaved woman who became an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance and civil and women’s rights. Her Civil War work earned her an invitation to meet President ...