James Ferguson II, a pioneering Charlotte civil rights attorney whose landmark cases helped desegregate schools nationwide, died Monday at 82. An Asheville native, he co-founded North Carolina’s first ...

The Trump administration’s attack on Harvard University is an unprecedented campaign by the U.S. government against an ...

Charlotte leaders on Monday mourned the death of civil rights attorney James Ferguson, whose work helped desegregate schools ...

Nearly four months after the Office for Civil Rights closed, one parent says she still hasn’t heard from anyone about her ...

California’s court fight to reign in the president's use of troops in Los Angeles now hangs on a 19th century law with grim origins and a Spaghetti Western-sounding moniker.

Fear has long simmered among critics of President Nayib Bukele’s concentration of power in El Salvador. Now, a new wave of ...

Under pressure from the Trump administration, the National Park Service (NPS) removed historical context from signage that ...

Loxahatchee Seminole battlefield important, if uncomfortable, part of U.S., Florida history The celebration honoring the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the ...

The Anti-Masons were the first recognized third party. It was formed in 1828 in opposition to the Freemasons, a secret society. The disappearance of William Morgan, a former Mason who had threatened ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to include the 27th U.S. state.