A newspaper reports on challenges of Black voters in Wake County, North Carolina. The Daily State Journal (Alexandria, VA), July 29, 1872 (Library of Congress). The first laws allowing private ...
Written by Sophia Nelson At our nation's founding, Black Americans were not merely excluded from America's wealth. They were, ...
With the Voting Rights Act weakened, Black representation will depend less on Black voters and more on broad, multiracial ...
The only successful coup in US history took place in Wilmington in 1898. It dismantled not a government but a black and white ...
That is why I believe every generation has a responsibility to remember, because when history fades, so does our ...
Black people once dreamed that Oklahoma would become an all-Black state. This quest is part of the state's Black history ...
If they’re successful, there will be instant evidence: fewer Black members of Congress. Both parties, for different reasons, ...
History has a way of disappearing if no one is willing to tell it. Too often, we celebrate milestones without remembering the struggle that made them possible. We inherit rights without understanding ...
Post-Callais, Black leaders fear national Democrats are once again treating the assault on their political power as an ...
Black lawmakers and activists in the Deep South say they are fighting an existential crisis on their own in the wake of a major Supreme Court ruling.
This awoke a sleeping giant,” one organizer said of the church rallies and voter drives underway after GOP lawmakers redrew ...