Today's political climate makes it easy to feel helpless, but you must remember you are not. Here's what you can do to combat ...

A new year of lawmaking and politicking is underway in U.S. statehouses. Governors are acting quickly to outline their agendas. And in many cases, the influence of President Donald Trump already is ...

A look at slavery through the eyes of a young woman named Harriet, who was sold at auction in 1861 to pay for her white owner's debt.

Black History Month is celebrated every February, the shortest and one of the coldest months of the year. At first glance it may not seem like a very festive choice, but there’s a significance to ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

Irvin Weathersby Jr. explores America’s museums and monuments in his new book, “In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy ...

The new president has left virtually no corner of the nation’s capital untouched in a wide-ranging effort to tear down the ...

A search of website archives confirmed the small, nine-star American flag icon existed prior to U.S. President Donald Trump's ...

The path toward equity in Austin education is long and fraught. Efforts to create fair learning opportunities for all ...

I was just nine years old and still finishing fourth grade in 1954 when I heard my parents talking about the Supreme Court’s ...

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

As he celebrated the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery in 1865, Frederick Douglass emphasized that pervasive racial discrimination remained an obstacle to the attainment of equal ...