One of President Trump’s latest executive orders is stirring up serious backlash, and for good reason. The new order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” goes after the Smithsonian ...

Professor Toyin Falola has called on African scholars to reclaim the continent’s past as a foundation for building a just and stable future. Speaking at the University of Jos during the induction of ...

I teach history, but I am not a historian — at least not in a traditional sense. I’ve defended no dissertations and have no Ph.D. But for the past decade, I have been poring over primary source ...

What follows is part of a short chronological series on African and African American History. The educational system in the United States does not always offer a balanced history of Africa which is ...

Efforts to take the focus off the nation’s racial past in compliance with President Trump’s wishes face resistance from those determined to preserve it. The Whitney Plantation in Wallace, ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Black History Month is recognized and celebrated each February, but through a new project, two Topeka historians are aiming to spotlight African-American history year-round. For ...

February marks Black History Month, a tradition that got its start in the Jim Crow era and was officially recognized in 1976 as part of the nation's bicentennial celebrations. It aims to honor the ...

Both of Mary McLeod Bethune’s (1875–1955) parents were formerly enslaved. Despite this, Bethune became one of the most important and inspiring leaders in education, women’s rights and civil rights. As ...

The month-long commemoration created to reflect on the past, acknowledge the continued struggle for racial justice and draw inspiration from the achievements of African Americans begins on Thursday.

Two interlinked but unfinished revolutions – one intellectual and one overtly political – have been playing a central role in Africa and the diaspora. Together they will help shape the trajectory of ...

It took the Voting Rights Act in 1965, and its revisions decades later, to restore Black congressional representation in the ...

The trouble started with a writer on deadline. James Sweet, who goes by Jim, is a white professor of African history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the former president of the American ...