I don’t like erasures,” the novelist Toni Morrison told a Princeton audience in 2017. She had been asked what she thought about Confederate statues, then being torn down throughout the South. Leave ...

Family lore has it that Irving got into some sort of heated disagreement with Cornelius, and got revenge by bestowing the Van ...

Her silence resonated backward more than 450 years.

Tuskegee Institute in Alabama is the most famous Black college in the United States. Between 1881 and 1915, its president was Booker T. Washington, who publicly urged African Americans to ...

A federal judge has mandated the immediate restoration of an exhibit detailing the lives of nine enslaved people owned by ...

A federal judge has ordered an exhibit about nine people enslaved by George Washington to be restored at his former home in ...

Discover the significance of Black History Month and the ongoing struggle against the erasure of African-American history in the face of white supremacy.

Former diplomat-turned-creator Anela Malik reflects on how Black foodways formed the backbone of the American food system.

Given all of this, it is not entirely surprising that sexual assault of enslaved Black men has failed to garner sustained ...

Agrippa Hull, who served more than six years in the Continental Army, emerged from the Revolution respected in his Berkshire community yet constrained by persistent racism and the nation’s compromises ...

"I have lost this battle because my force was too small. The Government must not & cannot hold me responsible for the result . . . . I have seen too many dead & wounded comrades to feel otherwise than ...