Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The following books highlight different aspects of African American history, from women’s voting rights and systemic inequality to ...

There are relatively few detailed, firsthand accounts of the 12 million Africans captured and forcibly transported to the Americas in the 400 years of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Of the 10 million ...

You are never alone in this world. Reach out and you can always get help. Look around and you’ll find company. Pick up one of these great books and you’ll read about someone whose life was fascinating ...

In 1921, Bessie Coleman became the first black woman to own a pilot’s license. At the turn of the 19th Century, Free Frank McWorter bought his own freedom and that of 16 enslaved African Americans. He ...