By History.com EditorsThe March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln...
In the 1970s, fresh off a Broadway Tony Award nomination for the musical “Raisin,” Ralph Carter, a Black teen from Brooklyn became a television star on...
By Maitefa AngazaAt this time each year activists and advocates across the nation observe Black August. It was first organized by Black political prisoners in California...
Yaa Asantewaa Nzingha “If you are the son of a man who had a wealthy estate and you inherit your father’s estate, you have to pay...
More than history is underfoot in Central Park where Seneca Village thrived from 1825 to 1853. For more than two decades, scholar/public historian Cynthia R. Copeland...