A Medal of Honor for protecting the flag in the Civil War

Frederick Douglass cherished our common humanity over race

An Air Force pilot in Vietnam

A new book explores the "pre-Harlem, postbellum" writer Charles W. Chesnutt (1858 – 1932)

Advocate for education and women's rights

It is a bold assertion for Graham to argue Senator Bruce and his Old Family wife Josephine Willson Bruce were America’s First Black Dynasty. I get the marketing hook and all.

In this conversation, Michael DC Bowen and Winkfield Twyman Jr. discuss the varying perceptions of Black history, the importance of literature, and influential figures in Black history.

Ildi Tillmann shares her unique childhood growing up in Hungary during the late Soviet era. Ildi eventually moved to the United States and ended up in Africana Studies after auditing a class on African history and wanting to learn about different cultures.

Listen now | You Don't Know Who You Are

An emancipatory revolution

Episode 3 of our new series featuring FBT co-founder Michael David Cobb Bowen and author Winkfield Twyman Jr. Mike and Wink compare their respective imagined roles as King(s) of (black) History Month.

Listen now | Spoken word written and performed by Elton Orlando Frank II

Lessons from the great proponent of black self-sufficiency. Booker T. Washington, a remarkable figure in American history, was born in 1856. Following the Emancipation Proclamation he emerged from the shackles of slavery with nothing but the clothes on his back.

Listen now | An interview with founder and executive director of the Black Cowboy Coalition Aisha McElroy

As I woke up this morning, the disconnect between performance of Blackness and reality grabbed my attention. I do not believe Blackness = Oppression today. It occurred to me a review of life in 1959 might be instructive.

Listen now (72 mins) | An interview with historian Bill Carrigan

An emancipatory revolution. What is unique about America is that it formulated an ideological repudiation of oppression and became the first society ever to foster an organized and principled movement for the abolition of slavery.

Celebrate a great American on this Fourth of July

The roots of chattel slavery and the myth of American exceptionalism

Black Americans have been used as means to an end throughout our nation’s history. - Erec Smith - Start a free trial today for full access.

Beyond tribalism and decline

Pioneering African American physician, author, and intellectual

Throughout most of the history of Western civilization, rhetoric was seen as one of the primary subjects of the liberal arts. After more than century of decline, the study of rhetoric is making a comeback. This is good news, since to combat political polarization, we can all benefit from the...

Personal reflections on our shared human condition