This duality made intuitive sense to the students. They understood that their country and its heroes, like all of us, aren’t ...

“Until the pictures of the slave’s sufferings were drawn up and held up to public gaze, no Northerner had any idea of the cruelty of the system,” abolitionist Angelina Grimké wrote in her famous “ ...

The undeniable fact is that multiple parties share responsibility for the toxic state of today’s civil-military relations.

On a recent visit to the rural area where the Underground Railroad's most famous conductor was born enslaved in 1822, ...

During a Nov. 15 commemoration of Black Catholic History Month at Sacred Heart Church in Bowie, Maryland, the Roman Catholic ...

This juxtaposition of unrest and stillness is one of multiple focal points of "Photography and the Black Arts Movement, ...

Ken Burns' new six-episode docuseries 'The American Revolution' looks at the attitude George Washington had toward allowing ...

"Reflections in Black" was the first single-volume work to showcase images of leading Black photographers. NPR's Michel Martin visits author Deborah Willis to discuss a new expanded issue.