Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865

Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965.

“We can breathe easy again,” said the chair of the Merrimack Town Council, which had opposed the warehouse.

A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and c...