Thomas Downing — a freeman born to formerly enslaved people in Virginia — became one of the city’s wealthiest citizens as the ...

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

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

The president issued a proclamation recognizing February 2025 as Black History Month. But one race equity expert has ...

New defense secretary Pete Hegseth has canceled all cultural awareness months in the Department of Defense, including Black ...

President Donald Trump’s latest Black History Month proclamation is nothing more than performative lip service.

We have systematically oppressed a group of people for 400 years — from the slave ships of 1619 to the Three-Fifths ...

Gov. Sarah Sanders isn't the first and won't be the last person in a position of some authority to speak for the broad swath of mainstream Americans who are finally fed up with the predominance of ...

Conservative thinker Thomas Sowell spent most of his ... Why should any history professor teaching the lie that saving slavery was a driving force for rebellion against England get to keep his ...

Her expertise is in personal finance and investing, and real estate. Investopedia / Michela Buttignol The real economic growth rate, or real GDP growth rate, measures economic growth, as expressed ...