When a major network invited me to discuss Black History Month through the lens of presidential politics, I declined. Not ...

The restored Michigan Street Baptist Church symbolizes resilience, equality, and history. A crucial Underground Railroad stop ...

It’s tempting to overcompensate for the absence of Black history by teaching only perfect, pristine, and pure histories.

It can be argued that even before the Harlem Renaissance, the concept of Black intellectualism was born right here in Atlanta.

If you’re a fan of historical fiction, which half of that is most important to you: the history? Or the fiction? It’s entertaining to encounter actual people and events in a novel, where what we ...

Nearly 10 years ago, the New York University professor, historian and Pulitzer Prize winner was sitting in historic First Congregational Church, admiring a triptych of stained glass windows installed ...

And the antithesis was W. E. B. Du Bois, who was a much more radical thinker and who had a much more pro-active way of thinking about racial struggle for equality. And Booker T. Washington was someone ...

W.E.B. Du Bois 4. "In recognizing the humanity ... “Character is power.” —Booker T. Washington 41. “One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never ...