A combination of obscure legal mechanisms and racist institutions enabled—and continues to enable—developers to weasel it away. Emancipated slaves never received their promised 40 acres...
Marcus Garvey is famed for being Jamaica’s first national hero who advocated for Black nationalism in Jamaica and particularly in the United States. Born on...
A man named Johnny Lee Gaddy recently shared with peonage researcher, Dr. Antoinette Harrell, that in 1957 he witnessed African American children being literally fed...
Charlie Bell: Royal Alley Meridian, Miss. Age, 81 years Height, 5 feet, 6 inches Weight, 165 pounds Color, medium brown Hair, kinky white Beard, kinky...
Rose Holman Age about 84, height 5 feet, weight 115 lbs., color black, physical condition bad. Supported by 83 year old husband’s monthly W.P.A. earnings. “I...
“The starving time” was the winter of 1609-1610, when food shortages, fractured leadership, and a siege by Powhatan Indian warriors killed two of every three...
Decades before the Nazis turned to the Jews, German colonialists in Southwest Africa – now Namibia – dehumanized, built death camps for, and slaughtered tens...