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.

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 ...