The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

The history of the African American people seems far too wide, deep and complex to boil down into 6 television episodes, but that’s what Henry…

For IPAD/IPHONE users: When most of us think back to our history lessons about America’s discovery, the first people that come to mind are of European descent. But few know of a slave,known as Esteban the Moor, who traveled America and was the first African to do so. This and many other facts are featured […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Slavery in the United States was once a roaring success whose wounds still afflict the country today. So says Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who examines both its success and shame in “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross,” his new PBS documentary series that traces 500 years of black history. “Slavery […]