Harvard’s Swiss-born biologist, Louis Agassiz, commissions intimate photographs of South Carolina slaves to prove Blacks’ inferiority

Harvard admits first Black student

Step Right Up, and Get Your Ticket to The Greatest Show on Earth

General Gordon Baker Jr. was a 24-year-old student activist at Detroit’s Wayne State University when he received a letter from the local draft board in 1965. He responded in writing that he had no interest in fighting in Vietnam but would gladly go to war “when the...

The 2020 Census shows that the District’s African American population has plummeted to 41 percent from roughly 70 percent in 1970

Anthony Williams inaugurated ast D.C. Mayor