From its launch in 1945, Ebony magazine was politically and socially influential. However, the magazine also played an important role in educating millions of A

The black experience in America--starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961--is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African American fig

Beginning with the argument that the Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free African American slaves, this dissenting view of Lincoln's greatness survey

One of America’s wealthiest entrepreneurs, John H. Johnson rose from the welfare rolls of the Depression to become the most successful Black businessman in Am

A developmental history of the African-American struggle for autonomy and power discusses black slaves and white indentured servants, the black founding fathers