For the last couple of decades, a Jackie Robinson poster has been on the wall above my desk. In addition to a photo of the ...

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Laurence Fishburne has matured into a multi-talented actor who can handle any dramatic role an attribution to his decades ...

The Trump administration’s erasures are a deliberate whitewash of inconvenient American historical truths to create its ...

The Tuskegee Airmen unit was established in 1941 as the 99th Pursuit Squadron based at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The ...

The Department of Defense (DOD) will no longer observe cultural awareness months, including Black History Month.

A Medal of Honor recipient received a special welcome as he moved into his new long-term care facility in Fort Worth.

On Wednesday afternoon, led by police escort, Robert O’Malley became the first resident of Tuskegee Airmen Texas State Veterans Home in Fort Worth. O’Malley, 81, the first U.S. Marine Corps recipient ...

Trump’s order, entitled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” is in fact a directive to promote selective truths to create, by sins of omission, a false narrative — turning our layered ...

As a historian of America’s founding, I am acutely aware of what lies ahead as the country approaches the 250th anniversary ...

Elections in Florida and Wisconsin on Tuesday may shift the political landscape for Donald Trump and Democrats, but it is ...

President's order targeting the Smithsonian Institution aims to downplay the role of race and racism in American history, sparking criticism from civil rights advocates and historians.