From 1938 to 1978, one of Richmond’s most storied and fiercely competitive traditions played out on the gridiron. The ...

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

Liberty Hill, a historic Black community in North Charleston founded by four freedmen, is captured in a new documentary ...

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners features ghosts and vampires, but the monster wishing to suck the blood out of the blues and Michael B ...

Many ancient civilisations have emerged throughout the African continent's history, laying the groundwork for contemporary ...

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 ...

The state bought the land from local farmers, drew up an impressive grid of streets, and started selling lots. By 1820, Cahawba was Alabama’s first permanent capital city, with lawmakers meeting in a ...

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