Latest news and live updates as Trump signs an executive order to dismantle the Education Department and the Justice ...

"We will never be alive long enough for Black people to be free as long as we were enslaved," Bob the Drag Queen tells ...

Researchers found nearly 300 similar suits between 1814 and 1860, and more than a third of these people achieved their ...

Explore Harriet Tubman's legacy as a freedom fighter. Discover her role in the Underground Railroad and beyond.

A new statue of abolitionist Harriet Tubman was unveiled in downtown Binghamton on Friday. The statue is part of the Downtown Binghamton Freedom Trail, a series of landmarks representing a person ...

Jackson said her ancestors, Dred Scott and Harriet Scott, and their legal battle for freedom helped change the course of American history. “To be a great, great granddaughter to Scott ...

By celebrating its fifth annual Albany Film Festival, the New York State Writers Institute marks a return to the University ...

The latest measure, sponsored by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire, follows years of delays and efforts to ...

It is known most notoriously as the site of the Dred Scott case. The case involved a slave, Scott, who was suing for his freedom ... and lives of Dred and Harriet Scott, his wife.