A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

More than three-quarters of respondents to a New York Times/Siena College Poll this past October said American democracy is ...

This is the first part of a two-part series about Lincoln School and the anniversary of integration in Richmond. The end of ...

Statue of Burns in Dumfries town centre, unveiled in 1882. David J Black reminds us just how famous Burns was. See part one ...

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

The history behind slavery is a very dark history, from being chained, whipped, raped, and lynched. Some of that history took place in Columbus, Georgia. according to historian, Johnnie Warner who ...

A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...

Lincoln’s time as a young man on the make had made him think hard about the relationship between Americans and their government. In his era, elite southern enslavers insisted that government had no ...