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

African-American cemeteries across the nation are being neglected, leading to decay and erasure of Black history. Mount Auburn Cemetery is a notable exception.

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

Space must be maximized at the 163-year graveyard and concrete crypts that can hold two caskets are part of an expansion to ...

At one point the Westtown site was the hub of the Black community with many tenant farmers and support staff at Westtown School residing there. At least 16 Black families were property owners and ...

As the oldest incorporated Black community in the nation, Brooklyn has many historic aspects. But the cemetery is getting ...

The Pioneers & Soldiers Cemetery is the second site in Minnesota to receive the designation following Pilgrim Baptist Church ...

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 ...

We applaud the efforts to secure a marker for the Greendale Cemetery grave of Elias Allen, the Black Meadville resident whose efforts in 1880 to enroll his children in the whites-only school where ...

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 that chronicles the ...