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 ...

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 ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

As the title suggests, this is a series about migrants whose movements across our land ended up being the most consequential ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

Inside the B&O Railroad Museum, you'll find centuries' worth of railroad history. Much of it is also Black history.

We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff in part to deal with the mind of the South in 1913—yet the income tax revenue ...

From the site of Durham’s Black Wall Street, where Black-owned businesses thrived, to the site of the state’s oldest ...

In America's recent past, there have been other historic raids on immigrant communities to counter political and social ...

Donald Trump's approach is clear: make immigration and asylum more difficult, deport undocumented immigrants, close the borders. He has already signed several executive orders to implement his plans.