Norvel Lee was first introduced to the public and rose to prominence after he won the light heavyweight gold medal for boxing ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is renewing accusation that Charleston County schools violated state law when it ...

Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over ...

America must take a look at the ongoing racial violence and the monuments we build in service or resistance to it.

But since the end of the Civil War, journalists at Black newspapers have told a different ... The first truly national Confederate monument was the statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond. It was unveiled ...

and Fort Worth’s “grandmother of Juneteenth” and East Texas native Opal Lee took advantage of the occasion to call on the incoming chief executive to live up to the civil rights leader’s ...

(AP) — The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee ...

After drawing widespread ... struggle over gay rights to the Civil War – with anti-gay activists in the role of an idealized Confederacy. He exhorted conservative Virginians to follow the example of ...

Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday for Civil Rights ... June 3 is when Kentucky and Tennessee honor the dead from the Civil War, and Tennessee calls it Confederate Decoration Day.

The family of Robert Brooks, who was beaten to death last month at an upstate New York prison, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit ... been publicly explained. After Brooks was brought into ...