Is it significant? Yes. Is it historical? Yes. Is it neglected? Yes. So, these things should be saved, not paved over and ...

You may never have heard of Brooklyn, Illinois. You might not be aware it’s one of the country’s first Black settlements, or ...

Local leaders say part of the problem is becoming homeless in the first place and economic disadvantages that drive more ...

Briar East Woods is rich with wildlife from red foxes fed by neighbors, deer rutting in the fall, snapping turtles, green ...

(Tubman lived in Cape May in the 1850s, working as a cook in hotels and family homes to earn money to fund the Underground Railroad ... Black district around 1900 as hotel owners sought to appease ...

Writer and musician Emma John travels south to find the beat—and birthplace—of a special kind of Mississippi music.

“The Chinese railroad workers didn’t get the same pay or food ... And all of it, on the Pullman cars, was provided by Black labor.” White men held positions like engineer and conductor. The ...

Under its motto, “Founded by Chance, Sustained by Courage,” Brooklyn represented the possibilities for Black life in America.

A painting from a thrift store in Glenside is by William H. Dorsey, of Philadelphia’s elite Black society circa 1864.

Many years later, when he was in Soul Brothers Six, Ellison was dating a woman named Ann White, who wanted to settle ... By the early ’70s, Grand Funk Railroad drummer Don Brewer would sing ...

Maine has a long history of African American resilience, contribution, and community, despite being a predominantly white state ... the Underground Railroad. The journey of Black history in ...