In 1898, Black laborer Joshua Halsey was chased down by a white mob and shot 14 times in what became known as the Wilmington Massacre. More than a century later, the North Carolina father of four ...

FALL RIVER — It’s been long overdue — 95 years in fact — but Saturday saw the unveiling of a headstone and memorial for 19th century Black inventor Lewis Howard Latimer at Oak Grove ...

A Black Civil War soldier's unmarked grave Up North finally gets a headstone For years, the residents of a tiny U.P. town laid flowers and flags on an unmarked grave in their cemetery.

A lasting black and white memorial has been erected for devoted Newcastle fan killed on board the doomed MH17 flight. Article continues below The headstone has been put up in Newcastle’s West ...

Memorial day in Memphis: Memphis veteran showed the way for next generation of Black soldiers The history of Captain Nathaniel Reed. In 1853 Reed moved to Iowa and, once the war broke out ...

A headstone for Dinah Chase Whipple, a formerly enslaved Black woman who died in 1846 after founding the first school in New Hampshire for African children, was unveiled on June 13 in Portsmouth's ...