1820—The first organized emigration of Blacks from the U.S. back to Africa occurs. Eighty-six free Blacks leave New York Harbor on a ship named the “Mayflower of Liberia.” The group lands on the West ...

A Shreveport museum is honoring the history of the city’s first bank for freedmen by displaying a special exhibit during ...

International news outlets generally devote little attention to religious freedom almost anywhere around the world, except for large-scale tragedies such as the repression of Muslim Uyghurs in western ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

All these moves are supposedly justified by the idea that the federal government does not play a legitimate role in education ...