Author: Javonte Anderson, USA TODAY

Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson follow long tradition of Black ministers who support the Black community while advocating for political and social change.

NFAC and the Black Panthers followed in the footsteps of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, who organized in 1964 to protect civil rights workers.

Images of a Border agent twirling his horse reins like a lasso at Black people along the Rio Grande reminded historians of the nation’s painful past.

Before Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, this 19th-century free Black man was an antislavery activist, journalist and owner of the first Black bookstore.

The cultural disputes of decades past offer lessons for the heated CRT education debate consuming politicians, parents and teachers today.

His anger at the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, which he said nationalized slavery, fueled his scathing critique of a hypocritical nation, historians say.

Enslaved people in Native American territories waited later for freedom. And Black Codes after the Civil War stalled much of emancipation’s progress.

Created by the government after emancipation in 1863, the nearly 200,000 Black soldiers helped the Union win a decisive victory in the Civil War.