Bayard Rustin, the gay civil rights leader who was kept in the shadows by the Civil Rights movement establishment.

What laid the groundwork for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous speech at the March on Washington, and what are common misperceptions about its intent?

As a literary scholar and cultural historian who has spent a lifetime searching out African Americans' lost, forgotten and otherwise unheralded tales, I was honored to serve as a historical consultant on Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave," most certainly one of the most vivid and authentic portrayals of slavery ever captured in a feature film.

The growth of the cotton economy and the internal slave trade in America forced families to separate and migrate once again.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. makes a case for saving racist imagery that worked in tandem with Jim Crow laws.