The right wants the teaching of history to no longer indict power or inspire resistance. But our side won’t submit.

Historic Sotterley announced the launch of “The Kane Family: Slavery to Freedom at Sotterley,” a new book compiling and editing the research writings of genealogist Agnes Kane Callum, with Dave G.

The search for Apongo is a small part of historians’ ongoing work to recreate the lives of Africans taken in the ...

The Christmas Rebellion, led by Baptist leader Samuel Sharpe, challenged slavery and reshaped the nation’s history.

In 1939, Billie Holiday gave voice to a nation’s darkest truths with Strange Fruit, her haunting lament for the bodies of Black men and women hanging from ...

One hundred 95 years ago today, Mary Ann Macham was living her first day as a free woman. Born on a plantation in Virginia, sold for $450 when she was 12, Macham endured 17 years of abuse before ...

Wheatley’s work has been probed and scrutinized, both during her short life and after her death. But despite that, her verse — and her crucial, early voice against slavery — have endured. Now, as the ...

A full cabinet of marvelous costars includes Tommy Lee Jones, David Strathairn, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Adam Driver, Lee ...

Every week in Forward, our Monday newsletter, Brittany Carloni shares a short story from Wisconsin history. Today we present the last 12 editions of Back Words.

Jones had been preaching through the Book of John since the church’s 150th anniversary service in late September. Instead of ...

In an unusual trial, the N.A.A.C.P. has sought to show a school board’s “racist intent” by proving that the names of Robert E ...

In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who ...