During Black History Month, Rochester residents have a significant reason to celebrate. The city is recognized as one of the five key U.S. cities central to the abolition movement, alongside Boston, ...

If you haven't visited the Oneida County History Center during Black History Month, now is the time to do so, as they have a ...

As people across the country experience these issues, which affect everyone in different ways, it’s important that we learn ...

The Cozad-Bates house was not a stop on the Underground Railroad — it was a training ground for abolitionists.

A historic church at the heart of Britain’s slavery abolition movement is facing a financial crisis after the Government ...

Harper — the “mother of African American journalism” — died at 85. Her legacy continues to point the way forward for the ...

As we commemorate Black History Month, we spotlight Henry Highland Garnet, a distinguished abolitionist, minister, educator ...

When Tarence Bailey Sr. received a formal memo from the Maryland National Guard declining to support a celebration for ...

There’s an image that many of us have of the Underground Railroad: enslaved people fleeing at night, being hunted by slave ...

Thurston Woods’ Community Event Series, “Union City and the Underground Railroad,” will be presented tonight. Sponsored by Sturgis Bank, the program starts at 6 o’clock at 307 N. Franks Ave., in ...

By Bilal G. Morris, article courtesy of newsone.com “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man” – Frederick Douglass.  […] ...