Black History Month was recognized nationally in 1976, when President Gerald Ford designated the month as a time for the ...

From delivering the paper to picking it up at the corner bodega to waging advocacy battles in its pages, readers from around the country recall their ties to The Jersey Journal.

Feb. 1 marks the first day of Black History Month, and suddenly the study of the Black experience may feel like an act of ...

When American Eagle Flight 5342 took off from Wichita, the Midwest city with a proud aviation history was glowing from a big ...

"By finding these names, we are releasing them to give back these enslaved people some of their dignity," said Sarah Bader-King, executive director of the John Wornall House Museum.

February is around the corner – an annual nationally-recognized reminder to explore and celebrate Black history. This month is one of the best times to visit sites that shaped the Civil Rights ...

Bennett Parten, a Royston native and assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University, has done the research and concluded that Georgia was the site of the biggest liberation event in ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

The Apple TV+ docuseries doesn't feature pundits or historians as talking heads, focusing instead on the people on the ground ...

Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86 ...

The former Hawaii congresswoman isn’t just unqualified to be director of national intelligence, she’s a political opportunist ...

NHPR is honored to commemorate Black History Month with special programming reflecting on the African American experience.