In their first major battle, at Port Hudson, Louisiana on May 27, 1863, African Americans proved their courage beyond a doubt. Port Hudson served as the linchpin of Confederate control over the ...

White - Author, A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House Before dawn on May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls stealthily took command of a Confederate steamer ...

the first African American justice. But a House effort to remove statues honoring Confederates stalled in the Senate. One of those Confederate statues stands in front of the office of the House ...

Descendants of both the African-American founders and the white plantation ... civil rights activists have pushed to remove Confederate monuments, including the Talbot Boys, from the county ...

“Ruby - The Musical,” “Confederates” play and a performance from the Sphinx Competition. “American Black Journal” gets details on two theater productions arriving in Detroit that focus ...

Donald Trump is bringing Confederate statues back ... The order goes on to target the African American history museum in particular for allegedly promoting the idea that “American and Western ...

Nascar driver Bubba Wallace, the only full-time African-American in the top-flight US motor-racing series, has got the organisation to ban the Confederate flag from events. He said: "No one should ...