Research on African Americans covers many important areas, only a few of which will be discussed here: theories of white-black relations; the enslavement of African Americans; the development of an antiblack ideology; the creation of white wealth with...

African American studies is a subset of Black studies or Africana studies. It is is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of African Americans. Taken broadly, the field studies not only the...

The last of the black preachers who came up in the era of Martin Luther King Jr. are nearing retirement, giving way to a generation who learned about the civil rights movement instead of living through it.It's a transition that carries both challenges and opportunities...

A move is underway to put Robert Moses back up on the pedestal where he stood in the 1930’s. If the people backing the rehabilitation of New York’s quondam transportation, housing and recreation czar succeed, they might consider Joseph Stalin for their next revisionist project....

Years before civil rights activist Cleveland Sellers got caught up in the deadly 1968 protest known as the Orangeburg Massacre, he was on the path to the elite rank of Eagle Scout — until his paperwork was lost.Next month, the 64-year-old, who called himself a...

They are some of the most famous words in American history: "I have a dream ..." And the man who said them has become an icon.Martin Luther King Jr. has certainly gotten his share of attention this year, the subject of a presidential campaign controversy...