As a young civil rights lawyer, he helped integrate Texas districts that had resisted the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

Black History Month theme is “African Americans and Labor.” The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) notes that the theme sets out to highlight and celebrate the ...

LSA Student Government hosted a conversation on activism and racial justice as part of its annual Martin Luther King, Jr.

For several centuries, the United States was a slaveholding nation, until a civil war officially brought an end to the practice. Here’s a look back at this dark chapter in the country’s history.

An Alabama State House committee on Wednesday approved a that would make Juneteenth a state holiday. The House State ...

Thomas Jefferson' takes a close look at the "unequal power relationship" between the future president and an enslaved woman ...

Slaves do not own their own labor. The maximum tax rate on a 19th century plantation slave’s labor was 50%, as half of his ...

While the first POTUS himself was not keen on celebrating his birthday, nearly 300 years after his birth Americans continue ...