Harriet Tubman is already appearing on $20 bills whether Trump officials like it or not
A New York designer is using 3-D stamps to replace slave owner Andrew Jackson’s face with the woman who escaped slavery and led hundreds of...
Whether she’s on the $20 bill or not, Harriet Tubman made men pay for underestimating her
Harriet Tubman reveled in defying men, defying governments, defying slavery, defying Confederate armies and slave catchers who put a bounty on her head. Here's a...
Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed by a deranged woman. At 29, he almost died.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed and very nearly died in New York City in 1958. A decade later, on the night before...
The government shutdown’s fear factor: ‘If I don’t work, my bills don’t get paid’
More than 800,000 federal employees will begin missing paychecks this week because of the shutdown. Contract workers, who usually earn a great deal less and...
In Kentucky, an alleged hate crime shakes a black church and a white community VIEW
The Oct. 24 Kroger shooting was quickly overshadowed by the pipe bombs mailed to critics of President Donald Trump and a rampage at a Pittsburgh...
An iconic Olympics moment: Looking back at the Black Power salute that rocked the world in 1968
Olympic medal winners made a black power salute in Mexico City on Oct. 16, 1968, and it became one of the most influential protest images...
What is the 13th Amendment? A history lesson, inspired by Kanye
Kanye West's rants about the 13th Amendment and slavery, including his monologue during a meeting in the Oval Office, have left a lot of people...
The ultimate code-switcher: How a black detective used the n-word to infiltrate the KKK
For seven months in 1978, Ron Stallworth, a Colorado Springs police detective, submerged his identity as a black man and became a white supremacist on...
At Thanksgiving, the search for a black Pilgrim among Plymouth’s settlers
More than three centuries later, there was great excitement surrounding the discovery of a black Pilgrim.