Editor’s Note: This story is one in a series of Black History Month stories that explores the role of resistance to oppression in the Black community....

In 1859, Pierce Mease Butler decided to sell 436 enslaved African Americans who worked his plantations in order to settle his massive debts.

Over the years, details of the story about a group of enslaved Africans who rebelled in 1803, choosing death over bondage, has survived more than 200 years and been told acros...

Editor’s Note: This story is one in a series of Black History Month stories that explores the role of resistance to oppression in the Black community....

Many Black communities around Atlanta have voiced concerns about pollution for years but have lacked data to support their claims.

A Black History Month look at "double-consciousness," a black American struggle that W.E.B. Du Bois first wrote about in 1897 that remains relevant.

J. Marion Sims is known as the “father of gynecology.” Lesser known is that he experimented on enslaved Black women in Montgomery, Alabama without their consent or anesthesia.

A Black History Month look at the groundbreaking doll test that studied children's attitudes about how color affects being good, pretty and popular.

AJC Sepia Black History Month: 16th Street Baptist Church, site of bombing that killed four young girls in 1963, galvanized civil rights movement

Officially called the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male,” the federal government oversaw an experiment in which about 400 African-American men in the Ala...