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by Paul Finkelman, Ph.D. onMarch 27, 2013
Why hasn't the state removed an urban legend on its website relating to the Underground Railroad?
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onMarch 25, 2013
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Find out which popular beliefs are myths (slave quilts, anyone?).
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March 22, 2013
A monument for buffalo soldier Charles Young will also receive federal protection.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onMarch 18, 2013
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: A genre lost its inhibitions as Janie's orgasm riled critics.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onFebruary 25, 2013
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Before the Tuskegee Airmen, there was Eugene Jacques Bullard.
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by Charles Molesworth onFebruary 23, 2013
Author Alain Locke, the first black Rhodes scholar, launched a creative revolution.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onFebruary 18, 2013
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Why you'd be wrong if you said W.E.B. Du Bois.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onFebruary 4, 2013
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: The lucrative crop didn't reign just in the slaveholding South.
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by Jeanne Theoharis onFebruary 4, 2013
As we honor the centennial of her birth, let's understand the full measure of her legacy.
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February 1, 2013
We'll bet you didn't know these "Amazing Facts" about people of African descent.
