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Statue of Black Protester Is Raised in Place of Bristol Slave Trader

The debate over what should permanently replace the Colston statue has percolated since last month. Historians have suggested a statue of Paul Stephenson, a Black activist who organized a successful boycott of a Bristol bus company in the 1960s. 

With Latest Layoffs, U. of Akron Has Lost Almost a Quarter of Its Faculty Since Pandemic Began

The faculty union had proposed alternatives to the cuts, including deeper cuts in athletics and compensation, furloughs, and a more incremental budget-cutting approach, Schulze said.

University of Texas won’t Drop Song with Racist History as Players Requested

University of Texas athletes had demanded that the university cease to use the song, which has roots in racist minstrelsy and the words of Robert E. Lee, as an anthem. 

Black Conservatives Rebuke Call To Remove D.C.’S Emancipation Memorial

Supporters of the monument, including dozens of conservative black thought leaders, pastors and politicians who came to the nation’s capital to defend the embattled statue, say its critics are misreading the statue and ignoring its history.

Where Did The Term ‘Redskins’ Come From?

Monday’s announcement that the D.C. region’s football team would be abandoning the Redskins brand marks the end of a decadeslong push to shift the team away from the historically racist and oppressive term.

A History of the Newly Resurgent 'Black National Anthem'

The influence of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" on Black culture over more than a century has been immeasurable.

A Century After a Race Massacre, Tulsa Finally Digs for Suspected Mass Graves

The excavation at Oaklawn Cemetery, delayed for months by the pandemic, begins Monday morning.

The McGirt Case Is a Historic Win for Tribes

by Julian Brave NoiseCat

Gorsuch, a westerner with experience in Indian law, who is no liberal, applied a conservative textualist approach to the reading of treaty law and statutes. The result: A legal theory that has been marshaled to combat abortion rights and gay marriage delivered the most significant and favorable Supreme Court decision for tribes in the 21st century.

Historians Will Likely Rank Trump as One of the Worst Presidents

If Trump goes on to lose in November, he doesn't just need to worry about losing to Biden. Trump needs to worry about the fact that the history books are probably going to put him down as a below average president, if not one of the worst.

Hamilton, In Fiction And History, Is Key To Understanding The Electoral College

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court settled an important question about the function of the Electoral College that elects the U.S. president. But it did not address the pivotal question about the Electoral College.

‘If You Want to Experience Liberation, Black Women Must Be at the Table’

From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Black Lives Matter movement, Black women have made food a central part of protest.

Riots Long Ago, Luxury Living Today

High-end development has transformed some Black neighborhoods decades after they were scarred by unrest. And not by coincidence.

Black Lives Matter Movement Prods Bethlehem and Other Districts to Review How History is Taught

Last weekend, protestors in Allentown, PA demanded that the school district mandate a Black history curriculum.

During the Civil War, the Enslaved Were Given an Especially Odious Job. The Pay Went to Their Owners.

The National Archives has made available online a trove of almost 6,000 Confederate government payroll records that account for money issued to hundreds of owners and others for the work of the enslaved.

Campaign Urges NASA to Rename the John C. Stennis Space Center

The center, in Mississippi, is named for a former senator who opposed civil rights legislation and the Supreme Court ruling that desegregated the nation’s public schools.

Native Americans and Polynesians Met Around 1200 A.D.

Genetic analysis of their modern descendants shows that people from the Pacific Islands and South America interacted long before Europeans arrived.

Confederate Statues Were Never Really About Preserving History

These monuments were installed as symbols of white supremacy during periods of U.S. history when Black Americans’ civil rights were aggressively under attack.

Just How Little U.S. Students Learn About African American History — And Five Steps to Start to Change That

Leslie T. Fenwick and Chike Akua discuss anti-racist curriculums and provide five ways that K-12 and higher education administrators, teachers and students can begin to educate themselves on this subject.

A New Data Analysis Can Answer the Question "Do I Live in the Suburbs?"

The U.S. hasn’t had a formal definition for what constitutes a suburb. A new data analysis comes closer to defining America’s most popular neighborhood type. 

Calling Racism A ‘Leftist Lie,’ White Vandals Target California Black Lives Matter Slogan

“More than it being defaced, I was really personally disgusted with what I heard from the people who did this,” said a resident of Martinez, California.