Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...

A Shreveport museum is honoring the history of the city’s first bank for freedmen by displaying a special exhibit during ...

I hope Crank addresses this issue. El Paso County has 13,000 civil service employees. What impacts on our county ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

Robert Colby is a historian at the University of Mississippi. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

White dread of race-mixing girded the remorseless segregation of the Jim Crow era that followed the end of slavery. Trump warns Americans that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” ...

The ongoing legal challenges to President Trump's order highlight the complexities of constitutional interpretation ...

Attorney General Alan Wilson has thrown himself into the debate over birthright citizenship following President Donald ...