Education

How do you get a whole race of people to uplift themselves after years of persecution? This was the very question Colonel Allen Allensworth asked himself before he embarked on one of the most important journeys in African American history: to build the first Black self-sufficient town in California.

New Indiana Diploma Guarantees College Admission for Class of 2029 and Beyond Starting with the Class of 2029, Indiana students will have a new opportunity to unlock automatic college acceptance—thanks to the state’s new Enrollment Honors Plus diploma. Students who earn this diploma will be guaranteed admission into all seven of Indiana’s public universities, including […]

How did political parties come to be in the United States? Let's take a look back at their unique history.

The Black Manifesto, spearheaded by SNCC executive director, James Forman, demanded $500 million in reparations from white churches and synagogues across the United States.

Lula “Mae” Reeves, one of the first Black women in Philly to own her own business, created one-of-a-kind and custom hats.

Researchers say the earliest inhabitants of Ireland and some data suggest that the first settlers were Black people.

In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black Americans

Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground Railroad, her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known.

Viewed through a more expansive lens, Belle da Costa Greene's passing can be seen as part of an exercise in self-invention.

Black History Month is that time of year when the world suddenly remembers that Black people exist. Okay, I’m joking—kind of.  Let’s get into the makings and purpose of Black History Month, so that we can give it the appreciation and recognition it deserves. RELATED: 15 Things Invented By Black People   How Black History Month […]

What’s going on everybody B Swift here. Today i was scrolling on Fb when i came across a post from my friend Wildstyle talking about Martin University funding is being CUT.. If You dont know Martin is Indiana’s Only Predominantly Black Institution of High Education. Check out this letter that Rep Greogory Porter wrote read […]

Were there actually Black pilgrims eating with white pilgrim settlers in the 1600s?