Democrats are accusing Republicans of partisan gerrymandering. Republicans say redistricting is more than a decade overdue.

The past starts to seem irretrievable. There's a neighborhood near downtown called Freedmen's Town, for instance, that gained its name from a 19th-century community of former slaves. The streets ...

In Boley, an all-black town populated by migrants, freedmen would gallop through the streets at night shooting out residents’ windows. In the pages of the black press, businessmen admonished ...

Her first three novels all explored different periods of Black history, from 1850s Ohio to 1970s Alabama. “When I am in the ...

It seems as if Tammany Hall, the most well-known example of a “political machine,” has faded into the void at the center of ...

All three freedmen settled near the creek in and near today's downtown Melbourne. "This was a wild place. And these men built lives here," Patterson said. "Men of that age in the 1860s came and ...

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Wendy Patterson (Hendricks), a local girl who found success as a TV producer in Los Angeles, returns to Drumbán after over 20 years, having left under something of a cloud. Back in the chaotic ...