The March on Washington was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963. The event is one of the main driving points behind The Civil Rights Act, which was passed by Congress with a 73 - 27...

Since 1976, a half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States, every American president has designated the month of February as Black History Month, a celebration and...

[vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBKXVckz3jg"]Ben Kimchi explains some of the black history of Columbia. Video by Isaac Parrish. Script by Emily Oba and Bailey Stover. Special thanks to...

[vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdiyo2OZSAk"]Bill Thompson, local historian and member of the Boone County Historical Society's Historic Sites Committee, talks about the history of Douglas...

[dropcap style="flat"]S[/dropcap]ince 1789, the practice of presidents commissioning portraits of themselves, whether to glorify their egos or to preserve their faces for future generations, has been...

On April 4, 1928, Maya Angelou arrived into a world that would not be kind to her. Society found many ways to put her down for her gender and skin color. Angelou lived in St. Louis, Missouri until her...