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Trump wins the White House in political comeback rooted in appeals to frustrated voters

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives at an election night watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024,...

Trump’s comeback victory, after reshaping his party and national politics, looks a lot like Andrew Jackson’s in 1828

Donald Trump speaks to supporters early on the morning of Nov. 6, 2024. AP Photo/Evan Vucci by Spencer Goidel, Auburn University As the nation prepares for...

Buses weren’t the only civil rights battleground in Montgomery – the city’s parks still reflect a history of segregation

Oak Park, Montgomery’s first park, was white-only until the mid-1960s. Binita Mahato, CC BY-ND by Binita Mahato, Auburn University Montgomery, Alabama, touts itself as the birthplace...

American slavery wasn’t just a White man’s business − new research shows how White women profited, too

A colorized engraving depicts enslavers selling enslaved people in the 19th-century South. Corbis via Getty Images by Trevon Logan, The Ohio State University As the United States...

This Week In Black History Oct. 25 – Oct. 31, 2023

JAM MASTER JAY October 25 1940—The Black newspaper owners group—the NNPA (National Newspaper Publishers Association) is founded. 1940—Benjamin O. Davis Sr. becomes the first Black general...

Low-cost, high-quality public transportation will serve the public better than free rides

by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Hunter College Public transit systems face daunting challenges across the U.S., from pandemic ridership losses to traffic congestion, fare evasion and...

The women who stood with Martin Luther King Jr. and sustained a movement for social change

Women listen during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images by Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first...

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