NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — What is the history of slavery in Tennessee? How have people with ancestors who were enslaved traced back their lineage? On this episode of Inside Politics, host Pat Nolan ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., defended the state's new African-American history curriculum that has sparked controversy in an NBC Nightly News interview. Critics of Florida's new curriculum focused on ...

In Montgomery, Alabama, wedged between a maze of train tracks and the river, a long-neglected plot of land has been transformed. It's now home to the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, the vision of ...

In the everlasting faceoff between Black history and America’s self-conception, it’s worth revisiting one of the fight’s earliest and most valiant weapons of war: the slave memoir. Narratives by ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Roots 101's latest artifact was tucked away in a barn loft in Shelby County, near Louisville, for more than a century. Lamont Collins, the founder of the Roots 101 African American ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - According to a recent study, 37% of the Columbus population was enslaved by 1860. The history behind slavery is a very dark history, from being chained, whipped, raped, and ...