or to know it's wrong and to acquiesce by remaining silent, we have come to realize that violating American value of equality causes lasting harm and undermines our country's strength... Frederick Douglass once said, in exhorting his fellow African Americans to in Union Army..…

Yes this ‘decent’ American used an overt anti-African American ad to suggest that Democrats were pro ‘black’ and thus weak on law and order. ..…

The brave African American who became known as the “Moses” of her people, didn’t stop with her own freedom but went back – repeatedly – to help others and over the course of a decade, led countless slaves along the Underground Railroad so that they too could taste freedom. . .....…

Circuit Court of Appeals ruling indicating that North Carolina legislators, in their efforts to discriminate against black voters, had drafted a law that would target African Americans with almost surgical precision,” Anthony said. . ... This is due to allegations of voter fraud, and the..…

Just about everyone in United States, with the exception of the indigenous people, Native Americans, came here from somewhere else. The exception to this are African Americans, for the most part, did not come here voluntarily they were brought here in the holds of slave ships .. ..…

Teaching Race at UVa, seminar covering the founding of UVA, the history of enslaved laborers, emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Civil Rights movement, and struggles for justice and equity by African Americans at UVA and Charlottesville.. ..…

There were exceptions to the general rule among African American and Hispanic respondents, parenthood, and religion very highly. 4. Barely third of Americans believe it's important for married couples to share the same affiliation. ..…

Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment, involved 150 in-depth qualitative interviews of the children of MTO — young people (in this case, all African American) who had started out in low-income Baltimore housing projects, but some of whose..…

African-Americans are disproportionately locked up. . “There’s no question that the policies that we’ve had for more than 40-plus years have devastated communities of color,'' said Vanita Gupta, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. ... That disparity has..…

Fort-Whiteman, American-born black communist, is also the only known African American to have died in Soviet labor camp. Born Dallas, Texas, to family of former slave, Fort-Whiteman championed civil rights for African Americans, joining Communist Labor Party of..…

Speaking at Brussels event sponsored by German Marshall Fund, Pompeo lashed out at the UN, European Union, Organization of American States, African Union, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization, while referring to Brussels-based NATO as an indispensable..…

Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University and author of Sweet Tea Black Gay Men of South.  ..…

By extremely high mortality among, Third, comparatively high in southern cities was driven primarily African Americans. From 1906 to 1920, African Americans in cities experienced rate of death from greater than what urban whites experienced during the 1918 fl u..…

“We are aware of that, and so we are more open to counting courses, say, in AAAS [African and African American Studies], as gov courses, which we have done more in the past couple years,” Welch said. . ..…

Cyntoia Brown, who is African American, is at the center of a case questioning the constitutionality of mandatory life sentences for juveniles. ..…