Franklin Scholars program offer Durham students a rare opportunity at hands-on historical research On a humid, late Monday June morning, more than a dozen middle schoolers sat in a bright, sun-filled ...

Reconciliation Park is located in the Greenwood District, with plans to expand the park and the conversation to promote healing, education, and justice. Visitors stop by the John Hope Franklin ...

John Hope Franklin — the Tulsan who largely invented the field of black history — died Wednesday in Durham, N.C. He is remembered proudly as a gentle but forceful academic, who used his knowledge as a ...

TULSA, Okla. — The John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation launched a capital campaign to raise funds for a new facility in Tulsa’s Greenwood District. Leaders aiming to create a permanent space ...

The Feds were keeping tabs on John Hope Franklin in the 1960s, keeping a file on him for his beef with the House Committee on Un-American Activities and for his support of W.E.B. DuBois. From TPM: ...

Race, history, and John Hope Franklin / David Levering Lewis -- The scholarship of John Hope Franklin / George M. Fredrickson -- The scholar as activist / Robert L. Harris, Jr. -- American scholar and ...

The fifth John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation symposium is taking a different direction than its earlier versions.

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Day two of Governor Hunt's conference on race relations tackled issues such as the clergy's role and the law's role in dealing with racial problems. Tuesday's events were highlighted by a speech from ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Five North Carolina congressmen are among those calling for a stamp to honor the life of John Hope Franklin, the famous African-American historian who taught at Duke University.

In a June 2008 recording, the historian and author ponders the possibility of seeing a black president in his lifetime. Franklin passed away on March 25, 2009 at age 94.

Wednesday is the deadline for registration for this year's John Hope Franklin National Symposium, "Education for Reconciliation," scheduled for May 29-30 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.