After the Civil War, 20 Black families relocated to Caledonia in Livingston County from the south to start a new life.

The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. In 1974, the Supreme Court ruled t ...

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

In this Caprock Chronicles series, attorneys Chuck Lanehart and Dwight McDonald explore a shameful part of Lubbock's past - ...

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.

There’s an oft-repeated joke among Black people that the celebration of their ... The month grew from “Douglass Day,” which was observed in the 1890s on Feb. 14 — the day Frederick ...

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

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." ...

Black people make up 38% of the state's population ... who wrote that the remaining crimes from the provision's "pernicious origin still work the very harm the 1890 convention intended - denying Black ...

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

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 ...

The Supreme Court on Monday said it will not consider whether a Mississippi law banning people ... s 1890 constitution as part of early Jim Crow provisions attempting to limit the rights of Black ...