Juneteenth: A 99-year-old celebrates Underground Railroad quilts ~humanities.history Article 1179 words 24 votes
Globetrotting Black nutritionist Flemmie P. Kittrell revolutionized early childhood education and illuminated ‘hidden hunger’ ~humanities.history Article 1453 words 2 votes
Little-known Black history comes to light in new documentary series ~humanities.history Article 1650 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 US 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
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
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