Wall Street is known for its stock trades, but 300 years ago it was the site of a very different kind of investment.

She was only 19 years old when she was sentenced to death for killing her slave master, Robert Newsom, six miles south of Fulton.

Officials plan to purposefully sink the passenger ship off the coast of Florida, where it will become the world's largest ...

When you think about Black History Month, several figures likely come to mind, with Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass ...

Introduced by Assemblymembers Charles Lavine, Deborah Glick and Tony Simone, bill A3966 would amend the state’s education law ...

Sometimes blending Scripture with contemporary music and the arts, faith leaders are providing lessons on Black history to ...

My military service saw my allegiance to six different presidents over almost 40 years in uniform. I didn’t always agree with ...

Organizers from nonprofit organization Here2Hear, will present "Black History: Learning from the Past and Inspiring the ...

The slavery era was a gloomy time in Surry County as it was elsewhere in the nation, but a “monumental” new publication is casting light on that topic locally.

U.S. Military bases were named after Confederate soldiers to appease white supremacists; it was right to rename them.

The effort to name the House Press Gallery after abolitionist Frederick Douglass is getting a push forward as Rep. Byron ...

Descendants Luncheon in March, the Christiana Historical Society is looking for people whose ancestors took part in the ...