For generations, the Underground Railroad has been the quintessential story of resistance against oppression. Yet, the story is incomplete. What is far less known is that the majority of enslaved ...

The Bartlesville Westside Community Center is hosting a free two-day bus tour to educate Oklahomans about the history, struggles, and future of the state's historically all-Black towns.

But Wilkerson might as well have been talking about the current exodus of Black people from Northern communities back to Southern cities, which is being driven by younger, college-educated Black ...

Although the practice of lynching had existed since before slavery, it gained momentum duringReconstruction, when viable black towns sprang up across the South and African Americans began to make ...

As a scholar of slavery, labor and resistance, I have written about the thousands of enslaved Black people who gravitated to the burgeoning cities and towns of the South, where they lived ...