Tag: History

AAPI Heritage Month is a time for teachers and students to highlight contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans.

The country’s first and only all-Black women's unit to serve overseas during the war will be awarded the Congressional Gold ...

How should Christians work for a just world? Through their remarkable lives, two 20th c. Egyptian Christian women offer us ...

Black Baptist leader the Rev. Sutton E. Griggs acknowledges in his autobiography the cost of his muddy attempts at race ...

Many state curricula still don’t mention Indigenous people, or mention them only as part of history. But that’s changing.

Who was Shields Green and why did he, a free Black businessman, decide to join Christian abolitionist John Brown's Harper's ...

Fannie Lou Hamer is lauded as a civil rights icon, yet her position as an anti-abortion Democrat is often overlooked.

Archaeologists believe they have discovered the foundation of the original building of the First Baptist Church in Williamsburg, Virginia.

A radical feminist, Christian activist and journalist, Ida B. Wells-Barnett spoke truth into the face of power every time.

A five-letter inscription dated around 3,100 years ago with the name of a biblical judge was unearthed in the Southern ...

The escape of ordinary Black women is essential to understanding how women built a culture and a politics of resistance ...

Charles Albert Tindley, the so-called “Prince of Preachers,” laid the groundwork for gospel music and a social gospel.

A group of scholars want the Atlantic seabed to be internationally recognized as a memorial site for the transatlantic slave ...

Bethune helped lay the foundation for the Civil Rights Movement via her work in education and political activism.

Patrick Healy, S.J. is celebrated as Georgetown University's first African-American president, although he lived life passing as White.

Maria Fearing left the upheaval of the Reconstruction era and went to a country in the throes of just as ...