While hurling racial and ethnic slurs against my grandfather and his African American friend, the man threated to burn down his plane if he ever dared bring a Black man there again. It was those ...

She came from a middle-class African-American family of photographers; her grandfather, James Presley Ball, was one of the first Black daguerreotypists in the US. As such, Ball was surrounded by ...

some states enacted a grandfather clause in the early 1890s. The clause waived literacy tests and additional requirements for men whose descendants could vote before 1867, and African American men ...