A portrait of Harriet Tubman in 1878. Library of Congress/Getty Images Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she
Source: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / Getty Washington, D.C.—The D.C. State Board of Education’s College, Career, and Life Readiness Committee (CCLRC) is being disbanded, raising concerns about disruption to student
Back view of American civil rights leader and Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr., dressed in black robes and holding out his hands towards the thousands of people
Outside the opening session of the 1960 Republican National Convention, an orderly crowd of demonstrators (including Martin Luther King, Jr., being interviewed at left) urges the party to
Source: Andy Mead/ISI Photos / Getty As the school year approaches its final stretch in 2025, high school seniors are starting to make their final preparations for life
Source: Robert Gauthier / Getty One thing about Republicans: once they get ahold of a juicy piece of factless propaganda, they refuse to let it go. (See the
Source: Boston Globe / Getty UPDATED: 10 a.m. ET, Nov. 26, 2024 Let’s have a serious conversation about Black Pilgrims. Were there actually Black pilgrims eating with
Source: Chinnapong / Getty The recent election demonstrates the enduring and pervasive anti-Blackness buried deeply in the American consciousness. Americans acted upon it recently within the nation’s most
West Springfield High School in Springfield, Virginia, on January 18, 2012. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty In 1975, only 1% of public schools had their own
