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 ...

We must refuse the shame that seeks to make us forget what we glimpsed, however briefly, in the streets in 2020, writes ...

I get this question multiple times a year— from Black people, in fact ... reasons to explore not only chattel slavery but the Reconstruction Era that immediately followed, from 1865 to 1877.

The government under President Donald Trump is bending the arc of US history in a new direction, away from the civil rights ...

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.

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 ...