Sydney Trent

After his miraculous delivery to Philadelphia, the former Virginia slave reinvented himself as an actor, magician and hypnotist who mocked racist ideas and defied limits on 19th-century black men.

Sarah Collins Rudolph was standing beside her sister and three other black girls who died at Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church.

During the 1918 flu pandemic, a band of angry residents saw masks as an infringement on their freedom, just as some people do today

Gov. Kay Ivey also proposed a discussion with the state legislature about Sarah Collins Rudolph’s request for a formal apology and restitution. Rudolph was 12 when the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing killed her sister and three of their friends.

Andy Eichar and Gloria Nlewedim were both 20-something legislative staff assistants when they first encountered each other on a Rayburn House Office Building elevator.

Thousands of visitors crowded D.C.’s Tidal Basin for the first National Cherry Blossom Festival after two years of pandemic cancellations. The symbolism of the fleetingly beautiful blossoms was easy to grasp for many this year.

Experts say there are powerful reasons why the 1 million-plus waiting list to adopt a U.S. infant will not shrink much, despite the end of Roe v. Wade

Sarah Rector was 11 years old in 1913 when oil was discovered on land she owned in Oklahoma. Her sudden wealth became the object of racist news coverage.

The statue of civil rights heroine Barbara Johns will replace Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Statuary Hall

A day before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln signed a contract to send hundreds of formerly enslaved people to Haiti

Retired Army Col. Paris D. Davis, 83, receives the highest military honor 58 years after he was first nominated for heroism during the Vietnam War.

Black jockeys — Isaac Murphy foremost among them — won 15 of the first 28 Kentucky Derby crowns, as they tested the limits of freedom during Reconstruction.

The National Genealogical Society is one of the oldest, largest groups dedicated to helping families trace their ancestries.

Would the new owner of Richland Farm let a Black woman continue to visit to pay tribute to her enslaved ancestors?

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Md., has denied the allegations in Vivian Cheung’s lawsuit.

The Human Genome Project convinced the vast majority of scientists that race doesn’t exist. Now a cohort of professionals and academics wants to change society.

The Human Genome Project convinced the vast majority of scientists that race doesn’t exist. Now a cohort of professionals and academics wants to change society.

The murders of her Osage relatives for their oil wealth still reverberate in the life of Margie Burkhart, granddaughter of a central character in the new movie.

The murders of her Osage relatives for their oil wealth still reverberate in the life of Margie Burkhart, granddaughter of a central character in the new movie.

Edward Garrison Draper was posthumously admitted to the bar Thursday following a push by a White Texas lawyer with a passion for Black History.