A group studying where to put South Carolina's first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls' statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist ...

In celebration of Black History Month 2025, the Luzerne County Historical Society partnered with In This Together NEPA, the ...

But Robert Smalls isn't just being honored for his ... Smalls who fought for education for all and to keep the gains African ...

The Army commissioned the Major General Robert Smalls -- the first time the service named a vessel after an African American-- in 2007. More recently, as part of the Pentagon’s efforts to remove ...

This series chronicles the full sweep of African American history, from the origins of slavery on the African continent right up to today when America remains a nation deeply divided by race.

Capitol Men, the fine new book by Philip Dray, tells the story of the men who became the first black Congressmen in the ...

When Grace Humphreys Rockafellow, 86,  was invited to participate in a reading of African American Literature, Renee Andrews, ...