Born enslaved, John Andrew Jackson spent his life fighting for freedom as a fugitive, abolitionist, lecturer and writer.

The monuments, however, are more than a symbolic, base-baiting distraction. They are part of the architecture of President ...

The town of Colony celebrated its history as one of Cullman County’s oldest communities — as well as one of the oldest ...

Marshall, Texas has a rich history, having served as the seat of justice for the Panola Judicial District, the first ...

Blacks started being inducted into the U.S. military around April of 1941 and one result was a series of violent incidents ...

Discover Morning Glory Homestead, a vibrant farm and camping destination on St. Helena Island, S.C., preserving Gullah ...

Justin Lo explores the enduring legacy of the Lost Cause in Richmond through the lens of the Commonwealth Club, a private ...

The Supreme Court signaled its appetite to pull more teeth from the Voting Rights Act, rendering it all but biteless.

In HBO’s hit series The Gilded Age, the actor LisaGay Hamilton plays Philadelphia poet, abolitionist, and suffragist Frances ...

A woman who poisoned 11 husbands to death over a 22-year period is facing execution in Iran. Kolsum Akbari, 56, ...

Sixty years ago today – August 6, 1965 – President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965, giving a ...

After spending nearly three decades preaching in two different centuries, James Ingram has stepped away from his pulpit.