Those Jewish acts were visible and audible statements of their identity. Statements of pride in their own culture that ...

Watch 'Abbott Elementary' star Sheryl Lee Ralph discover her ancestor was a free Black man in the mid 1800s on an exclusive 'Finding Your Roots' clip.

Jr. explores the long-lost roots of the Abbott Elementary star — and stuns her with the revelation that one of her African American ancestors was a free Black man in the Antebellum era.

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

Explore Harriet Tubman's legacy as a freedom fighter. Discover her role in the Underground Railroad and beyond.

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EDDA L. FIELDS-BLACK is the proud daughter of Eddie Fields, esq., and icon Dorothy Jenkins Fields, founder of the Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater. PHOTO ...

And the concept of birthright citizenship for all people born on American ... no person of African descent, slave or free, could be a U.S. citizen,” Frost wrote. The “antebellum doctrine ...

Few people have made such a powerful imprint on American history as ... which may have helped free more than 100,000 people during the antebellum period. This bio explores Tubman’s early life ...

More than any other historical figure, he made revivals a standard feature of the American ... city's 1,600 African Americans. As a preliminary step, he and several colleagues formed the Free ...