Alva Johnson, a 43-year-old event planner from Alabama, made the accusation as part of a larger class action brought in Tampa federal court which also claims the Trump campaign paid female and African-American staffers less than their white male counterparts. . Johnson, who is..…

He said the collision led to tensions between African-American priests and laity with white Catholics and Catholic hierarchy. in the face of resistance, black Catholics stood their ground and advocated they were pushing the church to live up to its name as church so its worship..…

And the civil rights movement had to do with the unbearable conditions for African American people in a lot of parts of the South, plus this rising idea that we’re not going to take it anymore and that we don’t have to.  ..…

Firstly, the American West was an important “meeting ground,” where Anglo, black, native, Hispanic and Asian-Americans coalesced. ... Cowboys and Indians, lawmen and villains, soldiers and savages, farmers and miners, and always, ultimately, black hats and white hats. ..…

I am speaking to all who are reading but, especially to my brothers ans sisters who call themselves “African American” “Black American” or just “Black”. ..…

Intersectionality has become common term in the conversation about justice, identity politics, and policing beyond the African- American community and has come to include LGBTQ issues.. ..…

Women and men, black, white, Latino, Native American, Asian American, gay and straight, young and old, native born and immigrant. ..…

African American Soldiers in Occupied Japan The letter, part of Maynard Miller Photograph Album at John Hope Franklin Research Center, helps document the complexity of African American military experience. ... Now, with the digitization of John Hope Franklin Research..…

In this she was a clear forerunner to Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth and generations of the most influential African American activists and political thinkers. ... This event received massive newspaper coverage and shed light on the reality for African-American..…

Chenault serves on the boards of American Express and several other corporate and nonprofit organizations, including IBM, The Procter & Gamble Company, the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, the National Center on Addiction & Substance Abuse at Columbia University, the Smithsonian Institution’s..…

How faculty helped create Columbia's first African American and African Diaspora studies department. Historians in News tags education, African American history, Columbia, African Diaspora... ..…

Circuit Court of Appeals involving African-American students wearing “freedom buttons” at their all-black schools to protest voting discrimination. ..…