Assata Shakur was our modern day Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman in her lifelong fight for Black Liberation.

One particular element of that conversation promises to be particularly fraught: calls to punish “hate speech.” After Kirk’s ...

Assata Shakur, a Black political activist who was convicted for killing a New Jersey state trooper and later exiled to Cuba, has died.

New Jersey's Black Heritage Trail helps citizens engage with the state's African American history through its network of 52 ...

Shakur was 78 and living in exile in Havana, Cuba. She died of “health conditions and advanced age,” according to a statement from Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Shakur had the distinction of ...

Grenada’s Jab Jab at Spicemas flips demonization into defiance, showing why more Black people are traveling there to celebrate freedom.

Disclaimer: I wrote this in response to an individual on Instagram. They have a different point of view than what I have studied about pre-civil rights, especially in the 30s.

From Jesse Jackson to Angela Davis, we’re honoring the last living Civil Rights icons who are still with us today.

Fort Monroe Authority CEO Scott Martin said the National Park Service has not flagged any of Fort Monroe’s exhibits for ...

What French does well in The Second Emancipation is remind readers that whatever the struggles faced by individual leaders, ...

Virtually every historian of the Civil War knows that slavery was the moving force for secession which led to the Civil War.

The President's House in Philadelphia educates visitors about Washington's ties to slavery and is a memorial to the people ...