Revels was born in North Carolina in 1827 ... There was one other Reconstruction-era Black senator from Mississippi, Blanche Bruce. After he left the Senate in 1881, Mississippi passed laws ...

Thom Tillis (R-NC) demanded Friday that Republican North ... senator from North Carolina added. Tillis’ ultimatum comes one day after CNN reported that Robinson, 56, described himself as a ...

Princeville, North Carolina — On a single-lane road in Eastern North Carolina, surrounded by farmland, the congregation at Mark Chapel Baptist Church listens to a sermon on faith — and the ...

Sixty years after Black Americans gained the right ... FILE Born and raised in North Charleston, South Carolina, Scott was raised in a single-parent household after the divorce of his parents.