Black History

Black Seminoles, much like the Juneteenth holiday, are only recently getting more attention despite having centuries’ worth of history.

Leta Harrison's show, "Black Girls Don't Wear Red Lipstick," features empowered women in diverse spaces, clothing and colors.

Historian, author and professor Peniel Joseph says the United States is living through the third Reconstruction period in its history. He says each of those periods is characterized by racial progress followed by white backlash.

Daniel Alexander was enslaved when he founded a farm before the Civil War. 175 years later, his family is fighting to keep it intact as Texas plans to expand U.S. Highway 183.

A 150-year-old building on West Campus is the last remnant of a freedom colony, a community of formerly enslaved people. The building has been closed as an apartment complex was built up around it. Some say the historic structure has never really gotten its due.

A new book explores how Black and female athletes in the Lone Star State pushed for desegregation and shaped national sports culture.

After decades of false starts, the Matthew Gaines Initiative student group raised $350,000 for Gaines' statue.

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Dr. E. James West, the Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in American…

From Texas Standard:The first Juneteenth was not the celebration that it is today. June 19, 1865 was the first day of a federal occupation of Texas, and…

Maria Stewart, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Belinda Sutton, Aurelia Shines. These people may not be familiar, but two historians hope they will soon become…