Black history

Black Washingtonians in the Fight for Equality: An Interview with Maurice Jackson

In today’s post, Dr. Robert Greene II, assistant professor of history at Claflin University and President of AAIHS, interviews historian

John Custis IV was in the upper crust of colonial Virginia. The planter and politician turned sixty in 1738, and

On a late summer night in 1964, a small plane landed on a desolate airstrip outside Greenwood, Mississippi, carrying two

In today’s post, Dr. Keisha N. Blain, Professor of Africana Studies and History at Brown University, interviews renowned historian Dr.

Both Minister Malcolm X and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. are oftentimes referred to as civil rights activists. Peniel E.