In 1936, Victor H. Green (1892-1960) published The Negro Motorist Green Book, a book that was both a travel guide and a survival manual, to help African-Americans navigate safe those regions of the United States where segregation and Jim Crow laws were disgracefully applied.

In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college bask...

An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice mar...

Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 A...

The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat a...

Conflict erupts within a close-knit engine company of a big-city fire department when a black recrui...

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...
The pupils of about fifteen secondary schools in the suburbs of Paris react to the projection of two...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

For over 85 years, steamship Ste. Claire transported generations of Detroiters to Boblo Island, an a...

Approximately, because so-called "ethnic" statistics are prohibited, there are an estimated 3.3 mill...

The Medal of Honor is awarded for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her li...

Reserved by Citroën for immigrant workers, the Aulnay-sous-Bois factory experienced its first strike...

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about t...
Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one ...

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a marc...
Words are loaded with meaning. Certain ones conjure joyful memories and others remind us of less hap...

The United States of America has been at war for almost all of its 250 years of existence. From the ...

Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights l...

The true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett ...