Special Editions

We’ve gone from disbelief and surrender to fervent belief and critical mass activism to secure reparations.

These traveling trophies—the Little Brown Jug and the Floyd of Rosedale Pig—have a deep history of incidents of racism and...

Sharecroppers, post-Civil War South The idea for land redistribution for former slaves had been tossed about by abolitionists long before...

Reparations become a limiting framework in which justice is conceived of as coming almost exclusively from existing legal and power...

The original idea for redistributing 40 acres of formerly Confederate land to newly freed African slaves was the brainchild of...

Despite the rich African American history, St. Augustine remained one of the hottest beds of White supremacy and White privilege.

The fact that centuries-old relics of slavery still support the economy of the United States suggests that reparations for slavery...

Frederick McKinley Jones invented the first automatic refrigeration system for long-haul trucks.

The Brownies’ Book gave African American children a platform to explore their lives, interests and aspirations.

Of all the details that need to be addressed in devising a workable plan for reparations, perhaps none is as...

Enjoy a few of the many local online events in honor of Black History Month.

Thousands of freed slaves drowned at Ebenezer Creek after the Union army betrayed and abandoned them.

'The Treasury Department is taking steps to put Harriet Tubman on the front of the new $20 notes,' White House...

People across the world took to the streets to nonviolently protest the police killing of George Perry Floyd in their...

MLK’s speech “Beyond Vietnam,” delivered at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967, spoke out against U.S....

Sixty-five years ago today, Rosa Parks made history and helped spark the Civil Rights Movement.

Jim Robinson for many years was among the few Black officials who regularly worked boys’ basketball games in the area.

When John Lewis left us, editorials and columns paid tribute to his leadership, his courage, and his moral example. The...

During the half-century that baseball was divided by a color line, Black America created a sporting world of its own.

The passage of the 19th Amendment was won after a 72-year long struggle led by a number of prominent women,...