Black History Month

Michelle Duster tells the story of her great-grandmother Ida B. Wells and her fight for racial equality.

The Power of Black Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights

A poem written at the turn of the 20th century by Paul Lawrence Dunbar about the formerly enslaved Americans who joined the Union to fight in the Civil War.

In Pigford vs. Glickman, Black farmers won $1.25 billion in a discrimination case versus the US Department of Agriculture.

Bill Lester was the first Black driver in twenty years to get all the way to NASCAR's elite series in the early 2000s.

Stories of resilience, spoonerisms, and celebrity sightings

From boxer to soldier, from combat pilot to spy, Eugene Bullard did it all.

Max Brooks shares his insight and research about the first all black infantry regiment, nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", to serve in World War I.

Baseball’s Leading Lady and the End of America’s Black Baseball Teams

Jerry Mikorenda tells the story of Elizabeth Jennings, a woman who fought for civil rights more than 100 years before the movement of the 1960s. Cambridge's Patricia Fara wants to redefine the legacy of Rosalind Franklin.

An unlikely encounter between two stars