WATCH: House Judiciary Committee hearing on reparations for African Americans
A House congressional panel is holding a hearing on whether and how to provide compensation for America's history of slavery and racial discrimination.
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Symbols of hate, and their racial implications, at the Capitol Hill riot
Last week's riot on Capitol Hill was filled with hate symbols: nooses, confederate flags, violent graffiti symbols. Ivette Feliciano spoke with civil rights lawyer and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, Bryan Stevenson, about the racial implications of the riot,…
MLB reclassifies Negro Leagues as major league
The league said it was "correcting a longtime oversight in the game's history" by elevating the Negro Leagues on the centennial of its founding.
Frederick Douglass statue ripped from base in Rochester park
Police said the statue of Douglass was taken on Sunday from Maplewood Park, a site along the Underground Railroad where Douglass and Harriet Tubman helped shuttle slaves to freedom.
America's first self-made female millionaire was Madam C.J. Walker, an African American who rose from domestic labor to her own beauty empire in the early 1900s. Now, Walker is the inspiration for a Netflix limited series, "Self Made," starring Octavia…
'Many Rivers to Cross' brings African-American history up to current day…
Black History Month originated in 1925 when the second week of February was made Negro History Week since it contained the birthdays of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln. Hari Sreenivasan reports on how some African-Americans now oppose the…
Renowned African-American writers Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham discuss their latest joint project, 'The African-American National Biography'.
Following a reprise of the documentary "Eyes on the Prize" that chronicled the civil rights movement in America, NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, who was part of the movement and the narrator of the series, discusses the series' significance after 20…
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