Who Was the 1st Black to Explore the West? By Henry Louis Gates Jr. (The Root)

Long before Lewis and Clark crossed the continent, a black slave named Esteban traversed the land that would later became the U.S. Southwest ... read more

"Estavanico," by Jose Cisneros, published in Cleve Hallenbeck's 
The Journey of Fray Marcos de Niza (1973) / The Root