Reconstruction after the Civil War promised black citizens of the United States equal rights ... a convention on black suffrage, killing 40 people. Meanwhile, a new session of Congress in March ...

Explore the revolutionary act of saving money and building generational wealth by African American ancestors. Discover their stories of freedom and resistance.

Both have been criticized for their harsh racial views and have a history of negative statements and treatment of Black people ... Obama was not born in the United States. In 1989, he placed ...

Reconstruction Acts passed after the war called for Black suffrage in the Southern ... which granted citizenship to all people born in the United States, including former slaves.

In fact, Marcus Garvey had formulated the solution to the Negro problem by declaring that black people in Africa and the Caribbean must unite as the United States of Africa. What is the United ...

The United States grew from ... were about as individualistic as any people could get. And while Reconstruction attempted to expand individual rights to black Southerners, Native Americans were ...

The Black Lives Matter Plaza mural in Washington, D.C., has disappeared as the plaza’s reconstruction nears completion, just weeks after crews began alterations.

NAACP Legal Defense Fund files lawsuit on behalf of two Black residents seeking a second opportunity-to-elect district.