Fifty-seven years ago today, on February 21st, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated. He would be 96 years-old if he lived to this day....

This is a real question I have asked myself. My intent is not to show disrespect, but to be honest about the low intellectual place I am...

Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving an official holiday on October 3rd, 1863, so he is the greatest President of all time. (And he did some...

I just returned from a month of living in Manhattan. During this time I took myself on a self-guided walking tour of Harlem, the famous...

In 1896, the Supreme Court decided in Plessy v. Ferguson that "separate but equal" facilities based on race was legal, and for the next...

The official end of the Reconstruction period was 1877, when Republican President Rutherford B. Hayes was inaugurated in exchange for...

1865 - 1877 Reconstruction was the period of time after the Civil War, beginning in 1865. There were three main philosophies during this...

Harriet Tubman was a Black woman who escaped slavery and helped others escape to the North via the Underground Railroad network. She was...

“What is that religion that sanctions, even by its silence, all that is embraced in the ‘Peculiar Institution?’ If there can be anything...

Famous Abolitionist, Author, Suffragist Frederick Douglass was a man who escaped slavery in Maryland and published the memoir, “Narrative...

American Slavery - 1619 to 1863

Prehistory and West Africa - 330000 BCE to 1400 CE