The 13th Amendment prohibited slavery and peonage.

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The Black and beautiful cast of Ryan Coogler's 'Sinners' looked radiant on the Sinners red carpet premiere for the film in ...

Nickel Boys” presents a history detached from the popular understanding of American society while serving as a powerful ...

Song of the South is Disney's most controversial movie ever, but there are some little-known facts that make the 1946 film ...

In an interview with Tony Norman, Percival Everett expressed surprise that there weren’t previous attempts to flip the script ...

The civil-rights activist Septima Clark once said she regretted that “young people prefer demonstrations over genuine ...

In my forthcoming novel, The Girls Who Grew Big, one of the main characters is a young Black mother in Florida seeking an ...

City Park’s Scout Island is an area enclosed by the park’s bayous, bridged by Harrison Avenue and surrounded by other park ...

Two decades after Brown v. Board, the Supreme Court struck down a desegregation order—and paved the way for today’s ...

Author Gregory Maguire wrote the book “Wicked” as a prequel to “The Wizard of Oz” — and how he’s adding more to the story ...