When enslaved people fled bondage in the 19th-century South, their enslavers were often forced to describe the people they considered property as human beings in "runaway slave ads" in newspapers.
Malinda Russell's A Domestic Cookbook was first published in 1866. It contains least a hundred recipes for sweets, plus recipes for shampoo and cologne – and remedies for toothaches.
The beginning months of 2025 have seen efforts to intentionally erase Black history, but Ruckage, a fashion brand founded by Darryl Bordenave, has countered this with its newest clothing line currently on display at Bloomingdale’s in Lenox Mall, celebrating the legacy of the historic Tuskegee Airmen.
Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, to present day cobalt mining. Her new book is Black in Blues.
In Oak Ridge Cemetery in Macon, Ga., efforts to understand a once willfully forgotten Black cemetery are leading people to a new understanding of their history.
Hundreds of Black hospitals in the U.S. closed after passage of the Civil Rights Act when health care became integrated. Black communities lost a source of employment and pride.
Civil rights icon Andrew Young has come home to the south Georgia city where he first became a pastor in 1955. Young is billed as the star guest at the opening of a traveling exhibit in Thomasville aptly called "The Many Lives of Andrew Young."
Georgia’s Public Service Commission heard the final oral arguments this week for and against allowing eminent domain to be used to build a new 4-mile rail spur through a majority Black community that opposes it.
State School Superintendent Richard Woods has decided not to recommend adding an Advanced Placement African American studies course to the state’s curriculum offerings during the upcoming school year.
The Margaret Mitchell House was closed in March 2020 because of the pandemic but remained closed for four years to undergo a complete transformation. It's now re-opening — and looks to open visitors' eyes to more of the actual history surrounding the classic story.
The promise of "40 acres and a mule" is probably the most famous attempt at reparations for slavery in the U.S., but it is mostly remembered as a broken promise.
