Thomas Downing — a freeman born to formerly enslaved people in Virginia — became one of the city’s wealthiest citizens as the ...

A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...

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.

As we continue our observance of black history month, we do a deeper dive into the life of the first black property owner in the region. Bladen not only was the first black property owner, he was ...

A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging is a powerful narrative intertwined with the historical experiences of slaves. (7News) ...

In 1904, two Americans boarded the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II and set off for Africa. One was Kent J. Loomis, brother to the ...

THE world set aside January 27 every year as International Holocaust Remembrance Day to remember one of the worst human tragedies of all times. The holocaust was a systematic genocide against European ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West, shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the shipwreck and ...

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts goes through a journey of self discover and healing while study sunken enslavement ...

Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, one of the great White heroes of Black history, offers his famous amendment to the Freedman’s Bureau bill to use land confiscated from former slave owners as well as some ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...