"If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated."
Colonization served as a means of enriching European kingdoms. As indentured servitude became a less frequent practice, planters began to enslave Native Americans and soon after, the Atlantic Slave Trade…
Joe Louis is popularly known as one of the greatest and most influential boxers of all time. On May 13, 1914, Louis was born in Lafayette, Alabama, to sharecropper parents…
Today we’re learning about the Transatlantic Slave Trade, which brought millions of captive Africans to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries, with the largest number of people trafficked…
African Americans have served with honor in the military since the beginning of our Nation's history. That service has not only been notable, it has been exceptional- often in the…