By 1880, 95% of African Americans living in Houston resided in Freedmen’s Town, the heart of Fourth Ward. Early in the 20th century, residents, weary of the mud streets, paved passages through ...

Gregory School in Freedmen's Town, March 22. Steve Campbell / Houston Chronicle file The background shows: Abandoned school building with boarded windows behind a chain-link fence. Scroll to ...

Sitting next to each other at a table in the Freedmen’s Town Conservancy Visitor Center, Charonda Johnson and Joseph Panzarella make an unlikely duo. Johnson, 47, is a lifelong resident of ...

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

The new Civil War Trails sign on the Eastern Shore dedicates Peter Jacob Carter. The sign’s origins lie with Arthur Carter, ...

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 ...

HILTON HEAD, SC. (WTOC) - A decades long decision is now nearing a resolution on Hilton Head Island. We first told you about the dilemma at St James Baptist Church two years ago, as members waited to ...

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 ...

Its congregation was formed in the 1880s by Gullah Geechee freedmen who founded Mitchelville ... a majority vote that they would relocate. The town, county and church congregation have been ...