Illinois struck down laws that kept free Black people from entering the state in 1865, a year after the Illinois Colored Convention of 1853, where men and women from across the country worked to ...

Through his nonprofit organization, the Alex Breanne Corporation, John Mills helped 50 people build their family tree that would have otherwise been lost.

From the forced labor of enslavement to laborers during Reconstruction to today’s leaders in tech and finance, Black ...

Onijah Andrew Robinson pulled up to Pakistan looking for her man and refuses to leave without being paid for her wasted time.

Marqu – or Margru – was one of the three young girls who were aboard the Amistad. In her portrait, she gently smiles – a glint of a personality that’s persevered despite the trauma of the voyage and ...