Their history is Brooklyn’s history, spanning from the borough’s era as a slaveholding capital in New York and through the ...

For many decades, Africans were under colonial rule that gave them little or no chance to express their desires. Despite the numerous obstacles, some youngsters (who eventually became renowned African ...

As the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution approaches, historians are looking deeper into the roots of the nation’s ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847 ... the court decided that all people of African ancestry -- slaves as well as those who were free -- could never become citizens ...

For black people, what mattered most was freedom. As the Revolutionary War ... consequently, more blacks fought for the Crown. An estimated 100,000 African Americans escaped, died or were killed ...