In 2018, the last year for which data are currently available, the proportion of people in the U.S. under 18 years of age was ...

The city’s early history was inextricably linked to slavery through its many cotton mills where young women from rural New ...

Inspiration, followed by motivation and a considerable amount of perspiration changed the lives of many former slaves and ...

A new law, buried inside an otherwise obscure piece of federal legislation, permits the Washington, D.C., City Council to establish a commission that will give “reparations” to descendants of enslaved ...

In greeting members of a full-house audience, David Thomas set the scene for the evening’s topic, the Underground Railroad in ...

Two South Carolina representatives were censured by the House in the 1800s. A third SC representative, Joe Wilson, was ...

In this week‘s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction by ...

New Civil War research armed with more data gives the fullest picture yet of not just the overall death toll but its disproportionate impact on the South, including Georgia.

Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese ...

The sun wasn’t up yet when a dozen people began to gather on Wednesday at an all-Black cemetery in this South Texas border ...