The coroner initially said Indianapolis resident George Tompkins "could not have hanged himself." A new plaque tells how his ...

The markers, made possible through a grant from the William G. Pomeroy Foundation, will be installed at Forest Home Cemetery ...

Founded in 1817, the Shiloh African Methodist Episcopal Church in Westtown served as a center for the local Black community.

Black History Month is behind us, but you can still travel the Gettysburg Black History Trail. Historians have created a digital passport through a free app that you can download here. It includes 11 ...

The land for the cemetery was purchased by Black ... grave. Jeraldine Williams, a descendant of a family member buried at Zion Cemetery, gives a speech during a Zion Cemetery historical marker ...

The graves of hundreds of African American tenant farmers and their families are being moved in Virginia to make way for an ...

Dedicated museums, individuals, and historical markers preserve pieces ... Approximately 674 Black victims were buried in a West Palm Beach mass grave at 25th Street and Tamarind Avenue in the ...

(James Mayo/Chicago Tribune) First Black woman to earn a pilot’s license ... As first victim of Chicago’s 1919 race riots finally receives a grave marker, here’s a look at other notable ...

(Jeff Bennett via AP) Oak Hill was part of a family empire that enslaved thousands of people across 45 plantations and farms in four states, according to “The Hairstons,” a 1999 book by Henry Wiencek ...