On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

Carmen Herrera, the late Cuban American painter ... the acquisition made Thomas as the “first African-American woman to have her work added” to the collection. In 1995, then-president and ...

At the National Museum of African American History and Culture ... After they were stolen from Sierra Leone, shipped to Cuba and put aboard the Amistad headed from Havana to a Puerto Príncipe ...

Kennedy denied that the United States had planned to provide air cover for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, a charge ... the first African American to serve on the nation's highest ...

If you don't know the history of how these people contributed to civil rights ... Johnson was the first African-American world heavyweight champion and a controversial figure during his time.

Why DEI Works for Business By ROD COTTON Perhaps it’s no coincidence that the tumultuous events of the past few weeks fell on ...

However, what we think of as an American style of porch, first associated with homes in the southern United States, originally evolved from the dwellings of enslaved people. Anthropologist James ...

Set of 14 characters dressed in different national costumes (USA, Canada, Guatemala, Cuba, Argentina ... celebrated in June 19. African-American history and heritage. Poster, greeting card, banner and ...

Born in Houston, Texas to an African American father and New Zealand mother of of white ... Chopra named Time magazine’s one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She was honored with the ...

In fact, in a 2018 Vanity Fair video titled "Mark Cuban's 9 Rules to Get Rich," he served up financial wisdom with the kind of blunt charm you'd expect from a guy who's as comfortable in a T-shirt ...