Map: Axios Visuals Portland's earliest Black history dates to 1850, and though some of the community's early homes, ...

For this Black History Month, the Banner reached out to members of our community and asked them to share their thoughts and ...

A: Black and white abolitionists often had different agendas by the 1840s, and certainly in the 1850s. But one of the greatest frustrations that many black abolitionists faced was the racism they ...

Between 1820 and 1850, Northern blacks also became the frequent targets of mob violence. Whites looted, tore down, and burned black homes, churches, schools, and meeting halls. They stoned ...

Virginia City’s boom in the later half of the nineteenth century brought some of Nevada’s early Black residents to the ...

Some black people fled to Canada from northern American cities after an 1850s law gave slave owners the right to pursue escaped slaves anywhere in the United States. (Courtesy of the Library of ...