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A drill echoes through narrow tunnels deep within the mountain where miner Hugo Flores bores into rock in search of one of ...
In 1920, there were more than 900,000 Black-owned farms in the U.S., many in the South. It wouldn’t last. In the following decades, the number of Black-owned farms nosedived, according to Census of ...
The “Voices” database, from the Newport Historical Society archives, centers Black and Indigenous experiences in Newport’s ...
The face of New England's second-largest city is diverse, with migrants from around the world bringing their cuisines, ...
A former slave, he transformed Memphis’s Beale Street into a hub of Black enterprise and culture.
The Mississippi Museum of Art now owns the only two known portraits of enslaved Mississippians that were painted before the ...
Here's our list of defunct Alabama amusement parks, from one that opened in 1904, to one that lasted only three months in 2016.
Polk Miller, a Richmond pharmacist-turned-entertainer, built a career mixing Confederate nostalgia with groundbreaking interracial performances. His act, “Polk Miller and His Old South Quartette,” ...
A Brierley Hill law firm is celebrating 150 years of serving clients and fostering strong relationships within the community.