Leesa Payton Jones shares the history of the Underground Railroad in North Carolina. The Washington Waterfront Underground Railroad Museum is recognized by the National Park Service as a part of the ...

On New Year’s Eve, Washington, NC honored its first Black high school with a new historic marker, linking Booker T.

WE AT “Now & Then” usually take our “Now” photos at, or near, the same spot as the “Then” images. This week, the spatial spread is greater. We’re talking 35 miles. At least the locales are in King ...

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The B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore has opened a new exhibit that spotlights the journey enslaved people took on their way to freedom along the city's physical railroad tracks. The new permanent ...