By Farooq A. KperogiThis column continues from last week. Isaac Jacob Rochussen, the patrician from the Netherlands who brought Nicholas Said to New York in January 1860, exposed him to his first ...

In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

Not long after the Civil War, hundreds of Black families lived and thrived in Forsyth County, owning their own land and creating wealth. But in 1912, that development came to a halt after a white ...

Going without insurance hurt all low-income Americans. But studies suggest the drop in Black Americans’ coverage under Trump’s plan outpaced that of white Americans. The rate of uninsured Black ...

My military service saw my allegiance to six different presidents over almost 40 years in uniform. I didn’t always agree with ...

In recent weeks, Democrats have debated how they should respond. Some argue that the party should expend little political capital on defending DEI — and that Trump’s war on di ...

NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens celebrated Black History Month with an informative and inspiring guest speaking engagement on ...

Trump's economic agenda, such that he has one, has been subordinated to his broad — and radical — racial agenda.

Congress passes the first Fugi­tive Slave Law. The law made it easier for a slave owner to re-take control of a slave who had ...

Brave New World has finally swooped into theaters and you know what that means? We’ve been on an Easter egg hunt.