by Yvette MooreNew York City schools were not racially segregated by law as in the South, but they were in reality because neighborhoods were racially segregated...
By Lincoln Mitchell , School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia UniversityTheconversation.com In 1959, when Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev visited San Francisco and members of the...
By Steven A. Holmes, CNN US ArmyEditor’s Note: Steven A. Holmes is a veteran journalist who worked at Time Magazine, The New York Times, where he...
By: History.com EditorsAs the 20th century began, the promises of the 14th and 15th Amendments—civil rights for African Americans—had fallen well short. Reconstruction had failed, and...
“Mothers are the peace on Earth that make the world go round. The love they give is always of hope...
By Da’Nelle Mason, at Age 9 It’s not everyday that a person gets to go back into the past. On...
-Bernice Elizabeth Green In late winter 1998, artist-photographer Barry L. Mason, his daughter, Da’Nelle Mason and I attended an Underground...
In this photograph taken by Melissa Sutphen in November 1976, these three school-age girls, now possibly 60 years old, are...
Underground Railroad Legacy Tour by Stefani L. ZinermanMember of the New York State Assembly, District 56, Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvesant |...
Niagara Falls’ “Conductor” Bro. Saladin Allah Shared Family History at Restoration The weekend-long Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Legacy Tour, presented...
by Louise DenteThe Bronx was alive with celebration on Saturday, March 8, as family, friends, and community members gathered to...
of the Little Rock 9 – A Book Review and Study Guide By Yvette MooreCarlotta Walls LaNier lived the historic...