SAVANNAH — The leafy, twisted, gnarled tentacles of century-old live oaks shade this square on the southern edge of Savannah’s Historic District. This public greenspace and its 21 sisters define ...

The Fox News headline quoting Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley was hilarious. Quite unintentionally. The headline: “House Dems reintroduce reparations legislation: ‘We refuse to be silent.’ ...

Savannah’s city council voted Thursday to rename a 170-year-old town square, in an attempt to shed some of its pro-slavery past and honor the Black educator and nurse Susie King Taylor. Calhoun Square ...

Cliven Bundy‘s pro-slavery, racist comments have soured a lot of the conservative supporters who regarded his fight with the Bureau of Land Management as a good opportunity to question the federal ...

The Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery is a tribute to an insurrection devoted to destroying the United States. It’s hardly a symbol of “unity.” Elizabeth Fraser U.S. Army photo Maybe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley failed to use the word “slavery” when discussing the cause of the Civil War and the ...

A group calling itself the American Political Science Association celebrated Presidents Day this year by publishing a list ranking all U.S. presidents in order of greatness — an exercise in which the ...

SHENANDOAH CO., Va. (7News) — Members of Virginia's NAACP branch said Shenandoah County schools created a discriminatory environment for Black students after recently renaming two schools for ...

A post on the news site Vox Monday accused actress Blake Lively of “accidentally publish[ing] pro-slavery propaganda in her online lifestyle magazine.” The writer was specifically referring to a ...

A long battle over the pro-slavery words on a Tyrrell County statue intensifies as the Trump administration reclaims Confederate imagery. By Audra D. S. Burch Reporting from Columbia, N.C. The first ...