An opera about the Underground Railroad has interesting ties to Lexington and one of its greatest basketball players.

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery in Minneapolis, the final resting place for Black soldiers who fought for the Union Army, has ...

The ferry operator pulled his large flatboat to the edge of the Virginia shore of the Ohio River. He watched and listened ...

Along the way, she met Lexington historian Yvonne Giles, who gave her more facts about the Stills, and introduced her to the Freedom Train project, which will establish an Underground Railroad ...

According to Rodney Ramsey, building relationships and community with local Black comedians across the country is both about ...

Racine area residents and visitors can learn more in the This Train Is Bound For Glory exhibit at RHM. People involved in the Underground Railroad would signal a farm or home was safe any way they ...

A fire in Elmira took out a big piece of history on Thursday night, the former First Baptist Church. The church has deep ...

CLEVELAND (WJW) – When Sara Lucy Bagby Johnson died in 1906 she had lived a quiet life for many years. There is the only one ...

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You learned from the previous three columns that Troy had a bustling Railroad life until the late 1950’s. Those of us growing ...