The teaching of Black history in segregated schools has a long history. After emancipation, freed people in the American South flocked to newly established schools to learn to read and write but also ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota History Center's newest exhibit hopes to show Black Americans' fight for racial equity and full citizenship in the years following the Civil War. Opening Saturday, the ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - This week on “Perspectives,” we learn more about the Jim Crow Period in South Alabama. USA is hosting a special exhibit on archaeology and oral history. It’s titled “Unwritten: ...

DULUTH — Lee Hawkins knows Duluth better than he knows the place he was born. In fairness, he only lived in his birthplace for three months. "I was born in Minot, North Dakota, on the Air Force base ...

BIG RAPIDS, Mich. — Ferris State University faculty and staff gathered to break ground on a new museum that will house the school's massive collection of racist materials. The university's Jim Crow ...

From Peabody and Emmy award winning journalist, Antonia Hylton, comes a new book that uncovers the disturbing history of a segregated asylum in 1911, where Black patients were forced to build their ...

Do you smell it? That foul odor that floats in the air, when something you thought was dead is unearthed. That’s the smell of ole man Jim Crow crawling back into our daily lives. Documenting those ...

MSNBC host and PBS pundit Jonathan Capehart has a new memoir out. It's titled "Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man's Search for Home." It sounds like the first lesson is this: a "Black Man" gets ...

We often encounter history repeated as folklore and vice versa. Firsthand encounters are retold so often, details get lost or rewritten in the process. One particular claim made its way from oral and ...

Donald Trump surrogate Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) responds to saying “during Jim Crow the Black family was together” during a Tuesday Black voter outreach event for former President Donald Trump in a ...

From Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton comes a new book that uncovers the disturbing history of a segregated asylum in 1911, where Black patients were forced to build their ...