Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lexington County’s announcement that its offices will be closed May 9. Lexington County’s announcement that its offices will be ...

NMAF copy 39088019259811 gift from the collection of Lonnie G. Bunch III. In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent ...

The facts in Sheila Bailey’s Jan. 8 letter to the editor (”For poorer Southerners, war wasn’t about slavery”) are right, but her conclusions are wrong. The fact that most Southerners did not own ...

More than 400 years have passed since chattel slavery was deemed a respectable and integral part of the American economy and policy. Still, there are folks who try to rewrite history and “whitewash” ...

Slavery—and it’s harrowing and depraved legacy—still has modern-day repercussions for Black Americans. It lasted four centuries and was the worst crime against humanity this country has ever committed ...

Engraving depicting the shooting of Major Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill by free black man Peter Salem, public domain. Slavery is the great exception to the rule of liberty proclaimed in the ...

Lexington County’s announcement that its offices will be closed May 9. Graphic from the County of Lexington Facebook page Salty emails began to pepper my inbox soon after my column calling for an end ...