One of the conversations my mother and I were having a few nights ago was about finding the silver linings in this Trump misadminstration....

  TransGriot: Note: Guest Post from Renee of Womanist Musings   Long before Django Unchained was released on Christmas day, there...

And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated ...

the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in ...

One of the things that pisses me off at times is when I hear the southern history revisionists try to pimp their 'happy darkie' li...

On August 20, 1619, the first 20 Africans arrived at Old Point Comfort in what would become the the United States.on a Dutch ship named t...

Since 1865, the United States has been suffering from an unacknowledged malady, and nope, I'm not talking about racism, even though it&#...

If I hear another Southern based (or non-Southern based) history revisionist claim that the American Civil War wasn't about slavery, I&#...

How reparations activist Deadria Farmer-Paellmann turned a one-woman campaign into a triumphant national movement by KEMBA J. DUNHAM from ES...

On a story summer day in 1700 a homeward bound British-based merchant ship was driven onto shoals 35 miles west of Key West, Florida. It bro...

One of the lessons my father repeatedly drove home to me and my siblings was never accept anything that's written or broadcast in the me...