Category : History

Slave rebellions and protests were not helping enslaved Africans in America gain their freedom, and this led them to devise other forceful means of obtaining...

Edmonia Lewis, in full Mary Edmonia Lewis, (born c. July 4, 1844, Greenbush, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept. 17, 1907, London, Eng.), an American sculptor whose Neoclassical...

The disturbing history of the slave trade brings to mind the horrifying experiences enslaved Africans had to go through while working on plantations in the...

Contributions of York and Sacagawea to the Lewis and Clark Expedition York: A Vital Member of the Expedition York, an enslaved Black man owned by...

A Legacy in Tulsa’s Black Wall Street Ottowa W. Gurley, born on December 25, 1868, to freed slaves in Huntsville, Alabama, emerged as one of...

Lee Andrew Archer Jr., Tuskegee Airman in World War II, was born on September 6, 1919, in Yonkers, New York. His father was Lee Archer,...

To commemorate Black History Month, Robb Report is publishing a four-part series highlighting Black designers, thinkers, and other creators whose pioneering work has shaped the luxury sector. This is...

Born on December 12, 1806, near New Echota in the Cherokee Nation, East, in present Gordon County, Georgia, Stand Watie was given the Cherokee name...