Seeds' Shines the Light on One Family's Fight to Farm the Land of Their Ancestors Clara family has owned these particular ...

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 stumbling upon her rich family history, the Fort Worth woman made it her mission to save a historic freedom colony in ...

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

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 ...