Sports and history enthusiasts! There’s an exciting new exhibition at the Houston Freedmen's Town Visitor Center that explores resilience, community, and the role baseball played during segregation.

The Cherokee Nation announced its production company, Cherokee Film Productions, will be releasing a feature-length documentary about Cherokee Freedmen.

Tribal citizens whose Black ancestors were enslaved by citizens of several tribal nations in Oklahoma are starting to see ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Muscogee Nation courthouse is pictured Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, as plaintiffs and supporters attend a preliminary hearing ...

The Oklahoma Indian Territory Museum of Black Creek Freedmen History and the Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band will host "Freedmen Roots Uncovered," a virtual workshop designed to help participants ...

House lawmakers are considering legislation that would withhold federal funds from tribal nations who discriminate against Freedmen, the descendants of people they once enslaved. The House Committee ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — As the U.S. faces a reckoning over its history of racism, some Native American tribal nations that once owned slaves also are grappling with their own mistreatment of Black people ...

A legal team representing two Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizens in a high-profile Freedmen citizenship case has asked the U.S. Government Accountability Office f ...

As part of its Black History Month observance, Cherokee Nation announced its production company, Cherokee Film Productions, will soon release a feature-length documentary exploring the highly-charged ...

Marilyn Vann always knew her background and where her family came from. She knew she was a Cherokee Freedman, a descendant of former slaves, and that she deserved to have full tribal citizenship, just ...

In the Book of Acts, chapter 6, verse 9, we encounter a group called the Synagogue of the Freedmen. In some translations they are called the Synagogue of the Libertines.

The Office of Freedmen Affairs would guide potential reparations efforts for descendants of enslaved people, including scholarships and tax relief benefits.