Weidel, thank you for agreeing to talk to The American Conservative ... I won’t deny that. Being a slave also has advantages. It is the noblest right of a servant not to take part in his ...

You may never have heard of Brooklyn, Illinois. You might not be aware it’s one of the country’s first Black settlements, or ...

In December 1909, the Fisk University Jubilee Quartet, continuing the legacy of the original 1870s Fisk Jubilee Singers, ...

Before the 1830s, when blackface minstrelsy begins formally, African Americans, people whom we today would call African Americans, have been involved in local entertainment. They are the fiddlers ...

FREEDOM AND OPPRESSION are at the very heart of the Torah portions from Exodus that Jews will read in the next few weeks. It’s a bit jarring to read these portions in January because they tell the ...

One of the first musicians to interpret the “Star Spangled Banner” in a way that displayed a Black consciousness was the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African ...

Records released in 1985 by U.K. artists such as the Cult, the Smiths, the Cure and others are marking a milestone.

Iowa played a vital role in the Underground Railroad, serving as a crucial sanctuary for enslaved people seeking freedom from ...

Johnny Cash released his version of “Hurt” in 2002 as a single from American IV: The Man Comes Around. The album was the last to come out before his passing. While the song wasn’t a huge ...

The hidden story of enslaved Georgians who, however briefly, seized freedom during the Union general’s famous march to the ...