The Education Department says it is investigating potential civil rights violations at two universities and a high school sports league that allowed transgender athletes to compete on women's teams ...

Can we learn from the past? We must. Immediately after the Civil War, radical Republicans collaborated with President Abraham Lincoln to assist the newly freed slaves with a program called ...

Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court over ...

“Freedom” is a word Americans like to use to define their national identity. But what exactly is freedom and to whom is it ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

President Donald Trump's orders on civil rights are a stunning blow to America’s 60-year fight against discrimination.

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...