The shellfish was considered food for the poor before Emmanuel “Manno” Bernoon, an emancipated Black man, started serving ...

University of Houston students participated in a town hall with state Rep. Jolanda Jones about the state of campus crime ...

Lafayette’s Bicentennial Farewell Tour will end in June when, just as he did during his tour 200 years ago, he heads into ...

The Waters family story in Greenbelt and Washington is far from complete. We know nothing of their inner lives, their hopes, ...

A series of talks are taking place telling the stories of LGBT individuals over the last 150 years in Bristol and Somerset.

“I am getting old,” Frank Marten reminded the man who had enslaved his wife and six sons. If the former master helped him learn where they were or “something of one of them,” Marten declared, he would ...

Brown faces three charges, including aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon and two counts of sexual assault. Each charge carries a $5 million bond.

Should a court grant a request for emancipation when a headstrong adult child rejects a payor-parent’s influence, but remains dependent on the other parent? “The parental obligation to support ...

A 40-year-old man has been accused of sexually assaulting a female student at knifepoint in a campus parking garage on Feb. 7 ...

As a proud member of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, I welcome the legislative efforts to protect the Dolores River, such as the proposed National Conservation Area in the southern stretch of ...

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...