Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International ...

The Education Department says it is investigating potential civil rights violations at two universities and a high school ...

The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to lobby government.

“Freedom” is a word Americans like to use to define their national identity. But what exactly is freedom and to whom is it ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

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

President Donald Trump's orders on civil rights are a stunning blow to America’s 60-year fight against discrimination.

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

America should celebrate federal workers. They make sure your child can go to a clean national park, you can take a safe ...