Peninsula native and renowned historian Calvin Pearson, who friends describe as a huge force in educating Hampton Roads on the history of enslaved Africans, died last week at 73. Pearson is the ...

Only a few weeks after the death of Project 1619 founder and President Calvin Pearson, his successor — William Wiggins — has also died. Wiggins — who was a historian, scholar and cofounder of Project ...

Image A middle school student in Washington, D.C., submitted artwork inspired by the essay "The Idea of America,” by Nikole ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones joined MSNBC's The Weekend: Prime to discuss why the Trump administration is targeting the Smithsonian. She explained that the administration is using race as a tool for political ...

When The New York Times launched the 1619 Project, it wasn’t trying to rewrite American history. It was trying to complete it. The project marks the year enslaved Africans first arrived in Virginia ...

"Black history, by definition, is political. Black people, by definition, are political," author and creator of The 1619 Project, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Howard University Professor ...

Since releasing the “1619 Project” into the world — a sprawling package of stories that posits that the true beginning of United States history starts when the first African slaves arrived in Virginia ...

Stymied by her unfinished family tree assignment for school, a young girl seeks Grandma's counsel and learns about her ancestors, the consequences of slavery, and the history of Black resistance in ...