Norvel Lee was first introduced to the public and rose to prominence after he won the light heavyweight gold medal for boxing ...

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

If there is one general that could be considered as having single-handedly lost the Civil War for the Confederates, it’s John ...

Mississippi is one of two states that recognizes Martin Luther King Junior Day as a dual holiday, shared with Robert E. Lee.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is renewing accusation that Charleston County schools violated state law when it ...

A park that was the site of fierce fighting during the Battle of Hanover has a new name, in honor of the Union soldiers that ...

America must take a look at the ongoing racial violence and the monuments we build in service or resistance to it.

But since the end of the Civil War, journalists at Black newspapers have told ... The first truly national Confederate monument was the statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond. It was unveiled before an ...

and Fort Worth’s “grandmother of Juneteenth” and East Texas native Opal Lee took advantage of the occasion to call on the incoming chief executive to live up to the civil rights leader’s ...

In the years after the Civil War, white politicians in southern states ... Louisiana in 2022 struck Robert E. Lee Day and Confederate Memorial Day from the list of official state holidays.

dozens gathered at Oak Grove Cemetery in Lexington on Saturday to honor Confederate generals Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and Robert E. Lee. Brandon Dorsey, commander of the Stonewall Brigade SCV ...