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

"African Americans in Tallahassee: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era" is the theme of the multifaceted show that runs ...

As the title suggests, this is a series about migrants whose movements across our land ended up being the most consequential ...

President Trump's executive orders have sparked a wave of concern among Black Americans, but the Black Press and the ...

Reconstruction may be one of the most misunderstood eras in American history ... the South to invent the Republican Party, using the black vote, running the legitimate leadership of the white ...

Black theologian Bishop D. Kimathi Nelson described Donald Trump’s 2024 election as the official end to America’s second Reconstruction. He argued that the first Reconstruction (1866–1877) was a ...

Reconstruction of the South ... the first political meetings in American history to include substantial numbers of black men. May 16: Having infuriated the Republicans, Andrew Johnson becomes ...

January 12, 2025 • This week on In Black America, producer and host John ... who profoundly influenced thinking about slavery and Reconstruction. Dr. Franklin died in March 2009.

While Reconstruction attempted to expand individual rights to black Southerners, Native Americans were treated quite differently. For one thing, the differences between South and West outnumber ...

According to the Historic Huntsville Foundation, many of Huntsville's builders were Black workers and entrepreneurs who found ...

Meet Lucius Amerson, the first Black sheriff in the South since Reconstruction ...