15 of America's Most Historic Restaurants
How does a restaurant become “historic”? For most American eateries, it’s a feat to survive even a f ...View More
7 Boundary-Breaking Black TV Shows
African Americans have appeared on television as long as the medium has been around. In fact, the fi ...View More
The 1969 Raid That Killed Black Panther Leader Fred Hampton
Early in the predawn hours of December 6, 1969, a Peoples Gas truck pulled up in front of an apartme ...View More
How Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition Championed Diversity
In November 1983, Rev. Jesse Jackson announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nominat ...View More
The Atlantic Slave Trade Continued Illegally in America Until the Civil War
The United States transatlantic slave trade wasn’t supposed to last all the way to the Civil War. An ...View More
8 Steps That Paved the Way to the Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or ...View More
Why Ice Cream Soared in Popularity During Prohibition
When Congress passed the Volstead Act in 1920, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic bev ...View More
How the Tulsa Race Massacre Was Covered Up
During the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, a devastating and violent riot obliterated Tulsa’s Greenwood ...View More
How the US Civil War Influenced Music
Though music had become ubiquitous in American life even before the Civil War, the conflict between ...View More
The Conflicted Legacy of the First Vice President of Color
While the election of Kamala Harris to vice president is historic, she isn’t the first person of col ...View More
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