In 1828, gold was found in the Appalacian Mountains of Georgia on land that belonged to the Cherokee Nation. As word of the ...

In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

During the February 4 Winthrop Improvement & Historical Association (WIHA) dinner meeting in the Deane Winthrop House barn, Park Ranger Will Watson, of the National Park Service, discussed the ...

In historian Robin Bernstein's new book "Freeman's Challenge," raising questions of the for-profit prison industry ...

Israel How Browne, also known as Israel Howe Browne, lived at 71 Concord St. He was known to allow escaped slaves to sleep in ...

More and more projects across Kentucky are uncovering Black history through historical documents, then putting them online ...

Athens native Michael Thurmond shares the anti-slavery feelings of Georgia's founder, General James Oglethorpe.

The writer, a two-time winner of the National Book Award, talks about her novel 'Sing, Unburied, Sing,' a journey through the slave South filled with horror and lyricism echoing powerfully in the ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

In Arkansas, between 1868 and 1893, at least 87 Black men were elected to and served in the Arkansas General Assembly.

Discover the Gregory School in Freedmen’s Town, a historic site and first African-American public school. Open for free ...