A newly published database includes hundreds of plaques, signs and pamphlets the National Park Service has flagged for review ...

As Brazil’s top tourist attraction approaches its 100th anniversary, Christ the Redeemer remains secretly tied to a racist ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson Sr. was honored Monday in the state where he grew up under ...

An internal government database reviewed by The Washington Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to revise or remove information on African American history, ...

After South Carolina, Jackson will be returned to Chicago for a large celebration of life gathering at a megachurch and the ...

Excavations at Sylvester Manor, a former provisioning plantation settled in 1651, have uncovered a vast trove of artifacts and evidence that helped flesh out the lives of Africans, Native Americans ...

PHILADELPHIA —The National Park Service is dismantling exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Independence National Historical Park. The president and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ...

Early Marietta David B. Baker One person can make a difference. The Marietta Register April 20, 1865, 6 days after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated: “Charlotte Scott, a colored woman living at Dr.

The travelers left Kingstree, South Carolina, during the Reconstruction era and eventually settled in what is now Marlin.

John Brown held a meeting to discuss liberating slaves via a guerrilla war — just before his infamous raid on Harpers Ferry.

Eden London, a slave from Winchendon, earned his freedom after fighting in the American Revolution. Here's his story.