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Author Rachel Swarns talked about the 272 enslaved people who were sold by Jesuit priests in 1838 to benefit what is now Georgetown University. Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.…

Journalist Antonia Hylton looked at one of the last segregated asylums and the role of race and mental health treatment in the Jim Crow south. Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C…

After President Biden signed a proclamation to designate the Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument, civil rights leaders spoke to reporters in the White House driveway.

After President Biden signed a proclamation to designate the Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument, Sen. Duckworth (D-IL), Sen. Durbin (D-IL), and Rep. Nikki Budzinski (D-IL) spoke to…

Fred Gray is a longtime civil rights attorney from Montgomery, Alabama. Some of his notable clients included Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and other participants of the mid-1950's Mon…

In part four of Books that Shaped America, historian, author, and Howard University professor Edna Greene Medford explored the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the first autobiog…

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR), and others unveiled the statue of journalist and civil rights activist Daisy Lee Gatson Bates, representing the state o…

The National Juneteenth Observance Foundation hosted a brief Juneteenth celebration commemorating the federal holiday from the White House Ellipse in Washington, DC.

Washington State University Ethnic Studies Professor R. Xach Williams talked about the history of Juneteenth and the importance of talking and learning about regional Black history.

President Biden hosted a concert on the White House South Lawn in celebration of Juneteenth, a federal holiday he signed into law in 2021. The president described the holiday as “a day to re…

On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger announced the end of legalized slavery in Texas. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed explained the significance of Junet…

President Biden signed into law the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, making it now the 11th annual federal holiday and the first one established since the creation of Martin Luther …

Journalist Victor Luckerson chronicled the rise and fall of Tulsa’s Greenwood District also known as “Black Wall Street” through the lens of the Goodwin family from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massa…

President Biden delivered remarks to mark the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision to desegregate schools. He discussed his administration’s investments in …

Jeffrey Rosen and Tomiko Brown-Nagin talked about the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, in which the court unanimously ruled that separate public schools were not equ…

Ilyon Woo, author of Master Slave Husband Wife, recounted the harrowing journey of self-emancipation made by married slaves William and Ellen Craft in 1848.

President Biden and Vice President Harris both spoke out against what the president called attempts to “bury history” during a ceremony to establish the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Nat…

History professor Jeffrey Ogbar looked at the history of Atlanta and how Blacks there transformed the city into today’s ‘Black Mecca.’ The Atlanta Center hosted this event.

MSNBC host and political analyst Joy-Ann Reid discusses her book, Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America.

University of Maryland Eastern Shore history Professor Arlisha Norwood taught a class on the role Black women played during the Civil War and Reconstruction Era. University of Maryland Easte…