HBCUs

A 1968 student uprising at the Tuskegee Institute married practical demands with political vision.

Beginning in the 1960s, young Black majorettes and dance troupes created a fascinating culture. This is the story of how they did it.

Mary Lumpkin’s life helps us to better understand the post-Civil War push for education.

Historically black colleges and universities hosted all but six ATA tournaments from 1927 to 1968.

And they were shocked by race relations in the South.

Could President Trump actually win over the leaders of historically black colleges and universities?

In 1871, the Fisk University singers embarked on a tour that introduced white Americans to a Black sound that would reshape the nation.

To remain exclusively white after Brown v. Board of education, universities created scholarships to send qualified Black students to out-of-state HBCUs instead.

US corporations, with universities as one of their stages, masqueraded as agents of Black solidarity while undermining the demands of African liberation movements.

Popular narratives say that black veterans got no real benefits from the GI Bill. In truth, the GI Bill provided a rare positive experience with government.

On the Black doctors who received their medical degrees and a new sort of freedom in Europe.

Forced to bear her enslaver's children, Mary Lumpkin later forged her own path to freedom.

Even as they carve out space for Black scholarship, established universities remain deeply complicit in racial capitalism. We must think beyond them.

Historical perspective on school integration.

To preserve Black history, a 19th-century archivist filled hundreds of scrapbooks with newspaper clippings and other materials.

A personal account of how one young woman travels to South Carolina in search of her family history and freedom narrative.

The February 1968 killing of three student protesters in Orangeburg, SC marked a turning point in the black freedom struggle.

The shootings occurred two years before the deaths at Kent State University, but remain a little-known incident in the Civil Rights Movement.

It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.

The Civil Rights movement ignored one very important, very difficult question. It’s time to answer it.