This is not the first time Washington, D.C., and the nation have witnessed a President and his administration dismantle ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious ...

Although not widely known in American history, she left an indelible mark on the nation’s capital as a savvy lobbyist and human rights activist. During the 1960s, she worked at the grassroots level to ...

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth Thursday with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago to tell the last ...

A group of women sewing a quilt on the porch of a property in Georgia, May 1939 R. Gates / Frederic Lewis / Archive Photos / Getty Images Unveiled to the world in 2018 at the Smithsonian’s National ...

On July 18, 1863, one of the first all-Black army regiments to serve in the Civil War stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina.

President Abraham Lincoln signed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation 162 years ago this week. To celebrate, dozens of people gathered for the unveiling of a new presidential statue outside the ...