Huey P. Newton, the misunderstood visionary behind the Black Panther Party ~humanities.history Article 5773 words 9 votes
Globetrotting Black nutritionist Flemmie P. Kittrell revolutionized early childhood education and illuminated ‘hidden hunger’ ~humanities.history Article 1453 words 2 votes
Hollywood loved Sammy Davis Jr. until he dated a white movie star ~humanities.history Article 2191 words 9 votes
What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre destroyed ~humanities.history Article 1997 words, published May 24 2021 12 votes
The Jim Crow North: You probably know about the long fight against segregation in the South. But civil rights struggles in the rest of the nation have often been overlooked. ~humanities.history Link 9 votes
Rosa Parks' Stanford press conference recording now accessible online ~humanities.history Article 379 words, published Dec 18 2019 5 votes
A new documentary details the FBI's relentless pursuit of Martin Luther King Jr ~humanities.history Article 1773 words 5 votes
Black troops were welcome in Britain, but Jim Crow wasn’t: The race riot of one night in June 1943 ~humanities.history Article 1196 words, published Jun 22 2018 15 votes
The history of the US Army's 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the largest unit of black servicewomen to ever deploy overseas ~humanities.history Article 2559 words, published Jun 17 2020 4 votes
May 13th, 1985: The day Philadelphia police bombed a city street, leaving 250 homeless and eleven dead, including five children ~humanities.history Article 2030 words 28 votes
A rural town confronts its history: 100 years after hundreds of African Americans were killed, a memorial is set to bring details of the tragedy to light ~humanities.history Article 1426 words 7 votes
This land was our land: The Mississippi Delta's history of Black land theft ~humanities.history Article 7676 words 7 votes
Georgia Gilmore, who fed and funded the Montgomery bus boycott ~humanities.history Article 1323 words 5 votes
Is it time for truth and reconciliation in the US? ~humanities.history Article 1255 words, published Feb 16 2014 9 votes
The history of the Black radical group MOVE and its infamous bombing by police ~humanities.history Article 464 words 9 votes
Archivists race to digitize slavery records before the history is lost ~humanities.history Article 1392 words 9 votes
The overlooked history of African American skate culture ~humanities.history Article 1312 words 6 votes
Black mecca or most unequal US city: Will the real Atlanta please stand up? ~humanities.history Article 1514 words, published Oct 22 2018 7 votes
The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many southern whites still believe otherwise? ~humanities.history Article 7325 words, published Nov 28 2018 20 votes
The last slave ship survivor gave an interview in the 1930s. It just surfaced in the form of a new book ~humanities.history Article 727 words, published May 3 2018 3 votes