Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

The ordinance dictated the rules for territories to become states and required that, as a necessity of “good government and ...

The first was a complaint filed under the new Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act, which outlaws the ...

President Donald Trump's orders on civil rights are a stunning blow to America’s 60-year fight against discrimination.

For years, the State Department had come under fire from Republicans and conservative activists as a haven for Communist spies and sympathizers — and not without reason, since one of its rising stars, ...

Bucks County is no stranger to culture wars in schools. Here's what education law experts recommend to officials looking at the executive order.

Born enslaved in 1818, by the time of the Civil War Frederick Douglass was famous around the United States and Europe for his work in the abolition movement. So how did this famous orator learn his ...

Butler historian Bill May will speak at the Monday, Feb. 17, meeting of the Greater Pittsburgh Civil War Roundtable in Hampton. At 7 p.m., May will present “Capt. Thomas McConnell & Freed Slave ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

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