Documents created by federal agencies after the Civil War provide a wealth of personal data about the nearly four million African-Americans freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. For example ...

Through his nonprofit organization, the Alex Breanne Corporation, John Mills helped 50 people build their family tree that ...

Alfonso Domingo, co-director of the documentary “Invisible Heroes: African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War”, explains the unknown work of the men who defended the rights denied to them in ...

After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright ...

Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...

“For more than 200 years, African ... until the Civil War, when the Emancipation Proclamation declared they could join the armed forces of the United States. Although Black Americans fought ...

The ship’s pilot helped his family reach freedom, then served in the Civil War and in ... digitized and available on Ancestry.com, providing millions of African Americans free access to discover ...

The city of Tallahassee is celebrating Black history and culture. A new exhibit is open at the John G. Riley Center/Museum.

Two years into the Civil War, black soldiers prepared for ... In one of the bloodiest battles of the war, African American troops from the 9th Louisiana Infantry, the 1st Mississippi Infantry ...