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.

The census is mandated by the US Constitution. “The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term ...

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

Pressley plans to push H.R. 40 forward for reparations stating the country is emboldened in "white supremacy and anti-Black ...

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 ...

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

Democratic Oregon Rep. Janelle Bynum compared a Republican-led immigration bill to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Thursday ...

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.

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