hasan kwame jeffries

Hasan Kwame Jeffries is an Associate Professor of African American History at The Ohio State University. He says Ohio always had free African Americans who lived here.

Lawmakers have filed two such bills in the Ohio House, and the move has made some strange bedfellows. Early last week, Columbus City Schools leadership and the district’s unions issued a joint statement in opposition.

At protest after protest in Columbus, demonstrators have waved signs with calls to action like "abolish the police," "disband the police" or "defund the…

The Ohio History Connection is offering special hours and programs Monday to mark the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. The museum is open from 10 a.m.…

The Fraternal Order of Police is objecting to an Ohio State University professor’s visit to a local school because of comments he made about police on…

A new report says too many students don't know the basics of American slavery and too many teachers feel ill-served by bad textbooks and timid state standards.

The role of mass mobilization and mass action on popular perceptions of the Civil Rights movement, with Ohio State Professor of History Hasan Kwame…