Montgomery shows what’s possible when museums aren’t subject to capricious executive orders.

Florida A&M University is having its presence debuted at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and ...

Hope’s ears are each 15.8 inches long. Most people don’t have a standard reference for donkey ear size, but Hope’s owner Hannah Frost was clued in when her veterinarian was like, “Wow, those are ...

A Maryland commission recently concluded that state leaders and institutions were complicit in 38 lynchings and the widespread racial terror that followed the Civil ...

Florence City Council is set to vote on a historical marker for the Lauderdale County Confederate monument, detailing its ...

Maryland is recommending that $100,000 per person be issued to descendants of lynching victims after a state-sponsored lynchings study. The Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maryland is recommending that $100,000 per person be issued to descendants of lynching victims after a state-sponsored lynchings ...

Nicholas Creary, the chair of the commission, initially approached Del. Joseline Peña-Melnyk (D-Prince George’s, Anne Arundel) after conducting research on lynchings at Bowie State University. Over ...

The Washington Monument will transform on New Year’s Eve into the "world’s tallest birthday candle in honor of our Nation’s 250th birthday," according to the national Freedom 250 organization. The ...

More than 4,000 lynchings happened in 12 Southern states between the Civil War and World War II, the EJI report found, with the most - 654 - documented in Mississippi. Another 361 were in Alabama, 549 ...

President Trump said construction of his Triumphal Arch begins in two months. President Donald Trump's plans for wide-scale celebrations to commemorate the nation's 250th birthday begin on New Year's ...

It’s going to be lit. The Washington Monument will double as a giant birthday candle on New Year’s Eve to kick off the yearlong celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. Freedom 250, a nonprofit ...