February is Black History Month, and a great time to explore the history of African Americans in Vernon County. Today we’ll ...

In the 1890s, Adam Augustus Waterford, known as ‘Gus’, was hired as Portland’s first Black firefighter. Before 2018, he did not have a dedicated grave site until a group of eager students stepped in.

On November 10, 1898, white supremacists led the only successful U.S. coup, overthrowing Wilmington’s Black-led government in the ‘Wilmington Massacre.’ Its full toll and legacy remain unknown.

The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and ...

Starwood, with at least $115 billion in assets, is a global investment company with interests in real estate and hospitality.

Fletcher was well known across the Magic City. He was hired as a letter carrier in 1892, the first African American to work ...

The mill and homes were built in the present-day Logan neighborhood, a historically Black community. In the 1890s, Black ...

The city of San Antonio has adopted a plan to build a network of bike routes spanning 1,890 miles over the next quarter-century, largely within the existing street grid, at ...

The president of Harvard made an unjust decision in 1890, against his own directives, that silently smoothed the path for multitudes of much worse injustices to come – injustices that tore through the ...

More than 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin Abbott's visit to the White House and his relationship with President ...

In the U.S. the sale of old or existing homes far outweighs the sale of newly-built homes. Statista reports that over four million existing homes were sold in the U.S. in 2023, compared to under one ...

Black people make up 38% of the state's population ... the provision's "pernicious origin still work the very harm the 1890 convention intended - denying Black Mississippians the vote." ...