Here are ten shocking facts about slavery and American descendants of chattel slavery who survived the unthinkable in the ...

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AFRICAN AMERICANS. Cleveland's African American community is almost as old as the city itself. GEORGE PEAKE, the first Black settler, arrived in 1809 and by 1860 there were 799 Black people living in ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture must be preserved and defended to ensure that the full story of American history, including its horrors and triumphs, is told truthfully and ...

In January, Kathryn Jones began a quest to visit every exhibit at the Smithsonian's museums and read every plaque. Her ...

What interested you in working with the Huntington African American Museum? Huntington has a rich African American history as documented by the town's African American Historic Designation Council.

As President Donald Trump and his compliant Republican partners take more and more control of America -- the economy, law enforcement, education, foreign policy, voting, even libraries -- museums are ...

President Trump is escalating attacks against the Smithsonian museums, saying there’s too much focus on the negative aspects of American history, including "how bad slavery was." ...

Slavery and the destruction of the Native Americans were America’s two great original sins. While there’s no point in wallowing in guilt over them, it’s also a mistake to pretend they weren’t as bad ...

As widely reported, the White House this summer sent a letter to Lonnie Bunch, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, declaring the Trump administration’s intention to review all plans for next ...