"By finding these names, we are releasing them to give back these enslaved people some of their dignity," said Sarah Bader-King, executive director of the John Wornall House Museum.

February is around the corner – an annual nationally-recognized reminder to explore and celebrate Black history. This month ...

The Apple TV+ docuseries doesn't feature pundits or historians as talking heads, focusing instead on the people on the ground ...

More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them ...

Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86 ...

NHPR is honored to commemorate Black History Month with special programming reflecting on the African American experience.

President Donald Trump is ordering U.S. schools to stop teaching what he views as "critical race theory" and other material ...

Arguably the biggest mystery in the O.J. Simpson case that never got solved is what happened to the murder weapon, a knife.

Las Cruces Public Libraries hosts Black History Month events with a film screening and book discussions on African American ...

After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...