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For enslaved people, the holiday season was a time for revelry – and a brief window to fight back

Adolphe Duperly’s painting depicting the destruction of the Roehampton Estate in Jamaica during the Baptist War in January 1832. Wikimedia Commons by Ana Lucia Araujo,...

A Black history primer on African Americans’ fight for equality – 5 essential reads

  President Barack Obama presents NBA champion and human rights advocate Bill Russell the Medal of Freedom on Feb. 15, 2011. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Howard Manly, The...

A Black history primer on African Americans’ fight for equality – 5 essential reads

President Barack Obama presents NBA champion and human rights advocate Bill Russell the Medal of Freedom on Feb. 15, 2011. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images by Howard Manly,...

How some enslaved Black people stayed in Southern slaveholding states – and found freedom

by Viola Franziska Müller, University of Bonn For generations, the Underground Railroad has been the quintessential story of resistance against oppression. Yet, the story is incomplete. What...

Tubman led raids during Civil War as well as better-known slave rescues

 by Kate Clifford Larson, Brandeis University Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was...

Biden Administration in push to put Harriet Tubman on $20 bill

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent After four years of push back from the administration of Donald Trump, Underground Railroad heroine Harriet...

The DNA of a Black woman

by Chuck Richardson (TriceEdneyWire.com)—There is something magical about a fearless, intelligent, incorruptible Black woman. A woman willing to sacrifice and face any obstacle she must...

Philadelphia City Treasurer facing federal fraud charges, US attorney says

Michael D'Onofrio, PhiladelphiaTribune Staff Writer City Treasurer Christian Dunbar has been charged with federal embezzlement and fraudulent procurement of citizenship, according to U.S. Attorney William...

Stars of ‘Undergound’ show react to Harriet Tubman, Queen of Underground, gracing $20 bill

This is what you call the confluence of mutually agreeable circumstances, or perhaps a case of serendipity, or crazy coincidence. Or maybe there is some…

10 upcoming Black biopics to get excited about

Following the success of Straight Outta Compton, many moviegoers are looking forward to see some of the stories of other famous folks on the big…

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