The court wasn't convinced Kansans for Constitutional Freedom, a group that advocated against the so-called Value Them Both ...

The holiday to mark the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued on June 19, 1865, as Union troops arrived in Galveston at the end of the Civil War.

Before Melesa Johnson ever stepped into the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office, she was a young Black girl growing up on the ...

A sign honoring Nicodemus, the oldest and only remaining historic Black settlement west of the Mississippi River, which was founded in 1877, was damaged in the town of Ellis. The sign placed in ...

The Kansas Supreme Court determined that Johnson County prosecutors made procedural errors during the trial that undermined ...

President Donald Trump has declared war on equality as an aspiration for American democracy in Kansas and the nation.

The power of Douglass’s words is so resonant that even now the 1852 speech gets recited in public settings, which is what will happen in 16 New Hampshire locations at noon on Saturday, June 28.

Three gunboats slipped up the dark Combahee River on June 2, 1863. Commanding one of them was Harriet Tubman. During that ...

The word Oread — as a name — was carted to Kansas in the mid-1800s by Worcester residents who resettled before the Civil War, ...

During the 1850s, the southern enslavers were definitely in the driver's seat as far as the national government was concerned. The decade started off with the ...

A sign honoring Nicodemus, the oldest and only remaining historic Black settlement west of the Mississippi River, which was ...

The Kansas City Chiefs have released two more players with training camp quickly approaching. Per Charean Williams of Pro Football Talk, the Kansas City Chiefs released guard Tremayne Anchrum Jr ...