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

Texas is one of the few states that were once independent countries, and is quite proud of that. But just 16 years after ...

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

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

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

Going without insurance hurt all low-income Americans. But studies suggest the drop in Black Americans’ coverage under Trump’s plan outpaced that of white Americans. The rate of uninsured Black ...

Long-obscured and forgotten, the burial plots of more than two dozen people enslaved by the seventh president of the US are ...

According to a recent study, 37% of the Columbus population was enslaved by 1860. The history behind slavery is a very dark ...

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

RaMell Ross’ film ‘Nickel Boys’ is nominated for Best picture. His 2018 documentary is an attempt to express Black life and ...

Today marks the 207th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, one of the greatest Americans to ever live. After he ...

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.