Paul Simon has canceled two shows in Philadelphia that were scheduled for this weekend.

She was sentenced to ten years in prison but secured an early release in 2023. “The next chapter is one of healing, of growth ...

Mayor Kevin McCarty is spearheading a policy that would prohibit homeless people from sleeping outside City Hall overnight — a reversal of the city’s approach to homelessness ...

In New Mexico, which has the second-highest number of measles cases in the country, Lea County is home to 66 of the state’s 79 confirmed cases and has reported one death; it is about 47 miles ...

Governor William B. Umstead died of congestive heart failure and pneumonia on November 7, 1954. The North Carolina Herald-Sun editorialized Umstead had made a conscious decision to ignore his ...

Adam Gopnik reviews “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War,” by Michael Vorenberg, and “1861: The Lost Peace,” by Jay Winik.

President Donald Trump is facing mounting opposition from Republican senators over his sweeping plan to impose steep tariffs on nearly 200 countries, including the United States' biggest trading ...

Evanston, Illinois, and Asheville, North Carolina, are among the few cities carrying out reparations projects despite opposition from the 6% and 13% of respondents who argued such programs would be ...

This relative openness enabled the rise of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company—the nation’s largest Black-owned insurer at the time—and Mechanics and Farmers Bank.

North Carolina Central University via Getty Images Where Black Americans found success across the US Different cities developed distinct patterns of Black business growth. Due to segregation, Richmond ...

Durham, North Carolina, presented a unique case. Unlike older Southern cities, Durham’s rapid growth as a tobacco town created unexpected opportunities. “My hunch is that the growth was so rapid that ...

By Jazmin Goodwin 'Beautiful, bustling, and Black'—that was how author, attorney, and activist Hannibal B. Johnson described Tulsa, Oklahoma's Greenwood District in his book 'Black Wall Street: From ...