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 ...

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 ...

Jackson, MS () Mississippi has a long history of voter suppression. An 1890 rule that permanently strips people convicted of certain crimes of their right to ...

Race is a categorisation that is based mainly on physical attributes or traits, assigning people to a specific race simply by having similar appearances or skin colour (for example, Black or white).

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." ...

The voting restrictions were included in the state’s constitution after an 1890 convention in which delegates eliminated the right to vote for people convicted of felonies thought to be "Black crimes, ...