Black history

James Shapiro discusses Shakespeare and America. (Images by Dreamstime)

How William Shakespeare shaped America

(Illustration by Eleanor Shakespeare. Portrait of Christian Cole: ©The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, G. A. Oxon 4° 417, fol. 980)

Christian Frederick Cole: England’s first black barrister

Rosa Parks (right) riding on a bus following the Supremacial segregation on Montgomery's public transit system. (Photo by Don Cravens/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images)

My history hero Gabby Logan chooses Rosa Parks (1913–2005)

Portrait of Madam CJ Walker, America's first female millionaire. (Photo courtesy of Madam Walker Family Archives/A'Lelia Bundles)

Self Made: the real story of Madam CJ Walker, America’s first black female millionaire

“I have a dream”: the story of Martin Luther King’s struggle for civil rights in America

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Hidden Figures: the incredible real history behind the film

Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after her arrest

Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat: what happened next?

Black rights activist Malcolm X

Malcolm X: Activism, assassination and how he predicted his own death

Confronting evils.

Confronting evils

West Indian immigrants arrive at Waterloo Station, 15 October 1961. (Photo by Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

The Windrush generation

American civil rights leader Martin Luther King in Washington DC, where he delivered his famous 'I Have A Dream' speech to a quarter of a million civil rights supporters in Washington DC in August 1963. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Mourning Martin Luther King Jr: the life and legacy of the civil rights leader

Uncertain futures: Children of black American servicemen and white British women often spent time in case, such as this group photographed at Holnicote House in Somerset. (Photo by Lesley York – Author provided)

Mixed-race babies born after the Second World War

Olaudah Equiano (Photo by Getty)

General Early Modern

Who was Olaudah Equiano – and why was his story of slavery so important?

Rosa Parks rides an integrated bus

From Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King: the boycott that inspired the dream

Members of the Ku Klux Klan march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC in 1925. The Klan of this era was a terrorist group in the precise meaning of that term, says Linda Gordon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

When the Ku Klux Klan was a mass movement