Meaning from that point on the formerly enslaved people of Texas were finally free leading to the idea of what many now call ...

Texas is one of the few states that were once independent countries, and is quite proud of that. But just 16 years after ...

Dr. Jessica Johnson, an Ohio State University English professor, delivered a lecture at OSU Lima during Black History Month, ...

Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

Ellis’ dream of wresting power from the emperor was but one small moment in his boundary-breaking life. Eulogized as a ...

Texas's first female condemned killer received special permission to leave jail and be baptized at New Light Baptist Church ...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) choked up as she reintroduced H.R. 40, a reparations bill establishing a federal commission to ...

Joe Zsiga believes he is closing in on the treasure of Commodore Louis Aury, worth $200 million, near New Port Richey, ...

Pressley took over the mantle of the historic legislation that has been introduced in every session of Congress since 1989.

A film being shown Wednesday at the Mayborn tells the story of an overlooked Black cultural and artistic moment at the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition that has shaped history.

Black history in Brownwood can be traced back to one block on Cordell Street. Landmarks like the Rufus F. Hardin School, the ...

Those seeking to undo Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship are looking at past legal cases ...