As a result of the Trump administration's tariffs, W.E.B. Du Bois Project Co-Chair Julie Michaels said the total price of the ...

Columnist: In this still segregated world of ours, it was a rare and humanizing moment relating to one another, Black and ...

Discover 21 influential Black leaders who changed history through activism, politics, education, science and justice.

It is bitterly ironic that the political party that rages against ideological orthodoxy, virtue signaling and purity tests is ...

In 1985, City Council member Joan Specter teamed up with Mayor Wilson Goode for City Hall’s first art exhibit. The next year, ...

Today, its multisource dataset, currently housed at Rice University, features information on more than 30,000 slaving vessels ...

The Trump administration is attempting to erase Black history from the National Park Service, editing out the stories of slavery, freedom, and equality.

President Abraham Lin­coln signs a bill ending slavery in Washington, D.C. Approximately nine months later he would issue the ...

Washington D.C. is home to around 1.8 million African-Americans, the third largest Black population in the U.S., according to a Pew Research Center report from 2023. More than 678,000 people lived in ...