Oregon Black Pioneers will offer tours in Portland, Jacksonville, Oregon City, Astoria, Eugene and Salem from May through ...

Lesyslie Rackard says that through her quilts, she was able to pay tribute to George Floyd in 2020 — despite being stuck in her home.

Branch Rickey knew that signing Jackie Robinson as the first Black player in Major League Baseball’s modern era was a potentially risky endeavor.

As the nation commemorates the 250th anniversary of the War for Independence, the contributions of Black patriots are at risk ...

Cymbal-maker Zildjian has entered the electronic drum kit space, while Noble & Cooley is the oldest drum maker in the U.S. After 400 years as the world’s leading manufacturer of cymbals ...

The latest casualty in the Department of Defense's sweep of all things related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is Charles Calvin Rogers, a Black Army ... the Army and American society ...

I am an early American historian ... and the proposed “Garden of Heroes” were announced, and I expect these ideas to resurface in an attempt to frame history in ways dictated by politicians ...

I have also seen the troubling erasure of history from public spaces, particularly online. Websites containing information about the Tuskegee Airmen, Black American heroes, women’s history and ...

I am an early American historian ... and the proposed “Garden of Heroes” were announced, and I expect these ideas to resurface in an attempt to frame history in ways dictated by politicians ...

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Preserving Black History: Julieanna Richardson founded The HistoryMakers, the largest collection of Black oral histories in the U.S., capturing over 3,800 stories of influential figures in ...