In some states, Grant deployed troops to maintain order and guarantee that African Americans and their Republican allies ...

On New Year’s Day, Mayor Brandon Johnson welcomed 2025 by reminding Chicago leaders of the headwinds Black politicians like him face. The mayor sent a Crusader piece from last October titled, “Are ...

LOOK AT THAT. UNDER A SIDEWALK ALONG THE TOWN SQUARE. IT WAS FOUND DURING ITS MAIN STREET RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT. KCCI BEAU BOWMAN GIVES US A LOOK AT THIS 150 YEAR OLD STRUCTURE IN NEAR PERFECT ...

President Trump addressed one of the elephants in the room during his Tuesday address to ... the president said Americans will have to “bear with” him through an “adjustment period.” ...

Today marks the end of our annual Black History Month Series, and to mark a decade of us doing this we presented “Atlanta Unveiled: How African Americans ... label founded during the Harlem ...

Wright Museum of African American History ... from the profound strides Black Americans made in politics during Reconstruction to some of the rarely discussed ways that enslaved Africans and ...

William D. Coleman, born enslaved on an American plantation, eventually became the nation's 13th president. The Colemans' search for freedom would not end there. Decades later, during the brutal ...

AND SO IT WENT AT THE DRAYTON AFRICAN AMERICAN SCHOOLHOUSE IN SAINT MARY’S COUNTY. FROM THE 1890S UNTIL THE EARLY 1940S. UP TO 40 STUDENTS, GRADES ONE THROUGH SEVEN IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE DURING ...

(3.9% of the district's student population identified as African American during the 2023-24 school year.) "I've always had to learn about my own history on my own, so that I don't feel uneducated ...