At MLK Library, artists consider America’s past through the lens of slavery

The 1619 Project explored American history through the lens of when the first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia in the ...

Donald Trump trying to make George Washington look better makes America look worse

The National Park Service removed from the President’s House in Philadelphia acknowledgements of the people George Washington ...

The pioneering path of Augustus Tolton, the first Black Catholic priest in the US – born into slavery, he’s now a candidate for sainthood

Augustus Tolton was ordained in Rome in 1886. Previously, the only Black Catholic priests in the US had been men who ...