Black history

Here Are Six Ways Our Perception of History Has Changed

By Lara Mudie Latta "God cannot alter the past, though historians can." - Samuel Butler…

15-Year-Old Claudette Colvin Refused to Move Months Before Rosa Parks Did

Claudette Colvin is no longer a "juvenile delinquent". In 1955, Colvin was arrested for refusing…

100 Years Before Rosa Parks, There was Elizabeth Jennings Graham

In 1854, a woman named Elizabeth Jennings Graham refused to leave a segregated streetcar, and…

There’s a Reason Why Frederick Douglass Had So Many Photos Taken

Perhaps Frederick Douglass’ 160 photographs won’t be a newsmaker in today’s camera-obsessed world. But in…