The Amistad Research Center, one of largest repositories of Black history, cut half its staff after the Trump administration ended four federal grants.
The descendants of enslavers and enslaved have come together where their ancestors once lived, working to address the plantation’s legacy and promote healing.
A fight between Black and White revelers in the early-morning hours of a recent Saturday is testing the state of policing and race relations in Cincinnati.
In Savannah, Georgia, descendants and community members want to preserve the place where one of America’s largest slave auctions occurred 166 years ago.
Mr. Cain, who has died at 85, was part of the Clinton 12, who integrated an all-White Tennessee high school in 1956. Two years later, the school was bombed.
Kate Rogers was leading an $550 million renovation of the Alamo. She resigned after Texas Republicans began criticizing a social media post and her college dissertation.
The civil rights organizer was a fiery voice for Black empowerment. He died in prison, serving a life sentence for the murder of a sheriff’s deputy in 2000.
The Trump administration has scraped plans for coins honoring Frederick Douglass and Ruby Bridges opting for all Whites to celebrate the country’s 250th birthday.
Nearly 60 years after King’s death, civil rights leaders say Trump is forcing the movement to reinvent itself again as protections are recast as discrimination.
