The process to activate Super Neighborhood 60 has taken around six months. That hasn’t been the case for some others trying to launch their own groups.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...