The Maryland National Guard has declined to participate in a parade to honor the life and legacy of abolitionist and Maryland ...

Over a hundred people gathered at the Esopus Town Hall in the hamlet on Saturday for the sixth Sojourner Truth Life Walk, commemorating the life of the Ulster County-born ...

The Los Angeles City Council approved more than $3 million to support survivors of domestic violence prompted by concerns that local organizations would not receive state and federal funding.

The Los Angeles City Council Friday approved more than $3 million to support survivors of domestic violence in a move prompted by concerns that local organizations would not receive state and federal ...

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his ...

Brooke Rollins has been confirmed as secretary of agriculture. The Senate confirmed Rollins in a vote Thursday, placing a ...

The Tucson Audubon Society is changing its name after 75 years, joining about 50 other chapters nationwide in dropping the ...

When the 13th Amendment abolished slavery but allowed the exception as punishment for convicted crimes, California followed ...

In view of these facts from centuries ago, it strains credulity that these three names would so traumatize students and staff that they must be scrubbed from school buildings. Despite their flaws, ...

Patterson’s audacity is particularly illuminated given that in recent times he has positioned himself as a sober and elder ...

“The ‘Free as One’ exhibit is proof of how and what really occurred,” says Justina Barrett from HSP’s Chief Learning and ...