The Metro: Celebrate Buffalo Soldiers history at Rouge Park blues festival
The Detroit Parks Coalition's Freedom Arts Festival is celebrating the Buffalo Soldiers on Saturday at Rouge Park with a family-friendly...
The Detroit Parks Coalition's Freedom Arts Festival is celebrating the Buffalo Soldiers on Saturday at Rouge Park with a family-friendly...
For many Black Americans, the idea of religion intersects with freedom in a complicated way. Enslaved Africans came to this...
Detroit music and the people who make it are often associated with soulful, funky and bluesy sounds. But very rarely...
The Charles H. Wright Museum is hosting a series of carefully curated lectures by both nationally-recognized and local performers. The...
A new historic marker will be placed at the former location of the Algiers Motel, which was the site of...
Typical Black families in the United States have 15 cents on the dollar compared to typical white families, according to...
In the years following the Civil War, formerly enslaved Black Americans in the South were promised "40 acres and a...
State Rep. Helena Scott (D-Detroit) celebrated Juneteenth this year by showing up at a historic ballpark, watching as her bill...
Juneteenth marks our nation's second independence day — when the last of America's slaves were freed by executive decree. Though...
A class action lawsuit filed in 1968 against Hamtramck for displacing a Black neighborhood for the construction of the I-75...
In 1863, as the Civil War raged on, then-President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Emancipation Proclamation. Following the speech, about 1,000 Black...
In February 2021, The Atlantic launched "Inheritance," a multi-year reporting project about American history, Black life and the resilience of...