Nicknamed the cotton gin, the invention revolutionized American ... slavery. Slavery Led Directly to Modern Inequality Despite their two centuries of contributions, hundreds of thousands of ...

A showcase of teens’ talent and creativity includes flower silhouettes, neon acrylic artwork inspired by the artist Derrick ...

Even the intimacy of a man and a woman was subject to the absolute control of slave-owners. Grace and Guy were given the surname of their new owner and put to work in his cotton fields.

Black History figures everyone should know about For too many years, history books have focused on the achievement of White ...

Teachers fear Trump may use federal funding as a bludgeon to push “uncritical race theory” on K-12 schools and colleges.

A campaign to liberate slaves would be a natural extension of the previous decade’s anti-apartheid movement, when major human-rights organizations and black leaders passionately took on the issue of r ...

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The family of a Black Rwandan American student who faced racial slurs and persistent racial harassment at his Woodstock, ...

The American ... brutality of slavery for centuries makes up the very fabric that has stylized a new form of protest should not be lost on us. Photographs of Black slaves picking cotton still ...

Here is our only interaction with human life.”   Cedar Annenkovna reaches through the 12-inch slot on the cell door. The steel bars reach well above her head and anchor into a cement block in the ...

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