African American History

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Dan C. Goldberg, a health care reporter with Politico and author of The…

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Dr. Derrick E. White, associate professor of history and African…

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. concludes his conversation with Regina E. Mason, international speaker, executive…

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Regina E. Mason, international speaker, executive producer and author of…

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Richard Cahan, author of Revolution in Black and White: Photographs of…

kYmberly Keeton harvested community interest to create Growing Your Roots: The Inaugural African American Genealogy Conference. And she has a perhaps…

Photographs from a local newspaper that has chronicled African American life in Austin for almost 50 years are on display at the Austin History Center for…

A bill to study if an Emancipation trail in Southeast Texas should receive a national designation is now headed to President Trump’s desk for his…

From Texas Standard.The landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education set a historical precedent for education reform in the country. The…

From Texas Standard.When Heman Sweatt applied to the University of Texas at Austin Law School in 1946, he was automatically rejected because he was black.…