The City of Troy’s Council officially recognized February as Black History Month, commemorating and celebrating key Black ...

Harbor-Topky Memorial Library Adult Services Supervisor Andy Pochatko will deliver a lecture on John Brown and his ties to County at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Andover Public Library.

The National Abolition Hall of Fame in Peterboro continues to act as a beacon of hope to those impacted by the civil rights movement. Peterboro was a stop on the Underground ...

Le Roy’s First Presbyterian Church has a long, yet quiet history of being a site for promoting social justice, and fighting ...

Le Roy’s First Presbyterian Church has a long, yet quiet history of being a site for promoting social justice, and fighting ...

Uncover the remarkable story of John S. Rock, an abolitionist and the first Black attorney admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Shortly before the Civil War, the escape of two enslaved Nebraska sisters led to a cross-country pursuit, making headlines nationwide and nearly sparking a riot in Chicago. Some see echoes of the saga ...

While taking nothing away from her individual ability and drive, a new exhibition positions the people surrounding Edmonia Lewis as essential to her success.

Their children continued their work for African American rights. One family is the subject of a Pittsburgh exhibit this month ...

The renaming of the press gallery, spearheaded by Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., was conceived over the last year after the congressman said he brainstormed with his staff on ways to commemorate the ...

Leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday named its press gallery after Frederick Douglass, 150 years after the famed 19th-century orator and abolitionist became the first Black member ...

Agrippa Hull, who served more than six years in the Continental Army, emerged from the Revolution respected in his Berkshire community yet constrained by persistent racism and the nation’s compromises ...