GENEVA — Princess White remembers when Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church was so new it didn’t have a building. Now, 75 years later, not only does it have a building, it has its own street.

Washington — A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from deporting noncitizens detained in the Southern District of New York under President Trump's proclamation invoking ...

They had joined the English because of a 1775 promise, Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation, to free enslaved Black American men who fought for the British during the war. However, their uniforms were ...

O n May 5, The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts its annual Met Gala—an enormous world-renowned fundraiser that gathers ...

O n May 5, The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts its annual Met Gala—an enormous world-renowned fundraiser that gathers ...

Businesses and community members opened an indoor market in Lackawanna County, reviving shops from the closed Sugerman's. Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum Draws Red Line for Donald Trump Why Kathy Bates ...

Several documents pivotal to the nation’s founding are on view, including Dunmore’s Proclamation (Nov. 7, 1775), which established martial law and offered freedom to enslaved people who would ...

Following the defeat of his forces at Great Bridge, Dunmore bombarded Norfolk, fled to Gwynn’s Island and was eventually forced out of Virginia. Aside from issuing his infamous proclamation ...

Lawler: Dunmore’s proclamation had huge effects on what happened next. First of all, you had hundreds and hundreds of people leaving homes around the country, not simply in Virginia, but as far ...