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One young conservative lawyer would lead a determined fight to maintain Lewis Powell’s blindfolded race neutrality.

A new documentary tells the story of the last known slave ship to enter the United States and takes on the difficult question of how to memorialize America’s history of racial violence.

The discovery of the remains of the Clotilda, 160 years after it sank, brings new life and interest to the settlement built by the original survivors.

The discovery carries intense, personal meaning for an Alabama community of descendants of the ship's survivors.

Americans have erected countless monuments to past wars. But how do we pay tribute to the fallen in a conflict that may never end?

History haunts, but Alabama changes.

In 1931, Zora Neale Hurston recorded the story of Cudjo Lewis, the last living slave-ship survivor. It languished in a vault... until now.

In 1918, Tom "Shotgun" Rogers earned himself a piece of baseball immortality—by killing a former teammate with a fastball.

Is this the end of the Voting Rights Act?

How 19th century slave traders used, and reused, the brig named Uncas.

Seventy years after the civil preparedness film Duck and Cover, it's long past time to reckon with the way white supremacy shaped U.S. nuclear defense efforts.

When I think about the 1870 riot, I remember how the country rejected the opportunity it had.

GOP-led state legislatures have not only prevented voters from exercising their rights as citizens, they have usurped local control to remove monuments legally.

At the time, ideas of race in America were quite literally black and white. But a few meters of cloth changed the way some people of color were treated.