75% of all enslaved Africans coming to America came in through Beaufort and the sea islands of South Carolina. This beautiful and picturesque tourist destination, by its unique history is the epicenter of the Gullah culture and the foundation of African American history; the result of the mingling of West African slaves with the plantation culture awaiting them in America.
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home t...
Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier travel down memory lane to see what life was like back in the 192...
The History Channel marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11 with a new groundbreaking documentary about t...
This documentary celebrates the Black cultural renaissance that existed in the Greenwood district of...
The decades-long debate surrounding reparations is fraught, mired in racial tension and the semantic...
From his Memphis studio, Ernest Withers’ nearly 2 million images were a treasured record of Black hi...
A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making ...
During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the cont...
The US detonated 67 nuclear weapons over the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands during the Cold Wa...
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home t...
A fascinating account of the presidency of Andrew Jackson, who was both one of America's great presi...
Controversy erupts over a New-Deal-era mural of the namesake of San Francisco’s George Washington Hi...
Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood i...
Learn about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, on the one hundredth anniversary of the crime, and how the...
One of the most important events in Brazilian history, the Búzios Revolt of 1798 was led by dozens o...
In 30 years of a deeply committed career and 50 roles, Denzel Washington, double-Oscar winner, place...
Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the 20th Century. Smoked by generations to little discer...
Did you know that the first cowboys were black? Using magnificent archives and testimonies from hist...
When Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, he left behind a mountain of personal debt, which forced his hei...