Slave rebellions and protests were not assisting enslaved Africans in America in gaining their freedom, so they devised more forceful methods of obtaining their freedom. It...
In 1796, Ona Judge, a 22-year-old slave woman, fled President George Washington’s household for a life of liberty in New Hampshire. George Washington inherited 10 slaves...
A disabled Black man has filed a $50 million lawsuit against police officers who he claims used excessive force after wrongfully accusing him of a crime...
The American League of Colored Laborers (ALCL) was the first black labor union in the United States. It was founded in 1850 in New York City...
The African Insurance Company was founded in 1810, with headquarters at 159 Lombard Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the country’s first African American-owned insurance company....
The first significant black landowner in the English colonies was Anthony Johnson. Johnson landed on board the a ship named ‘James’ in Virginia in 1621. Early records...
Frederick Douglass, a well-known abolitionist, and preacher known for his command of language and prose, remains a towering figure in the annals of history for his...
Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker II, also known as Art Walker to close friends, was born on August 24, 1936, in Cleveland, the only child of Cuthbert...
Patricia Bath was the first African American woman to complete an ophthalmology residency and the first African American female doctor to be granted a medical patent....
A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation sparked the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, despite...
