According to a recent study, 37% of the Columbus population was enslaved by 1860. The history behind slavery is a very dark ...

For the last 75 years, the now deteriorating Quonset hut-style building has stood as a fixture in Macon.

Home construction is set to begin later this year at Liberty Hills, a more than 1,000-acre master-planned community in Anna, ...

Muhammad operates the Torchlight Academy Black History tours year-round, especially during black history month and Juneteenth. He says the words etched in stone is a sign that delineates segregation, ...

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Glimpses into what it took to break free from slavery are on display at the Tubman Museum this month. In the “Freedom Seekers: Runaway Slave Advertisements in the Macon ...

Muriel McDowell Jackson has spent almost 35 years working at the Washington Memorial Library, preserving historical knowledge ...

In 1888, struck by the number of orphans she was continuing to find around Atlanta, she founded the Carrie Steele Orphans Home.

Whenever Nikki Williams’ feet touch the soil on Sapelo Island, Georgia, memories of her youth flood back vividly. Every fall, ...

For the first time during Black History Month, thousands of documents connected to slavery in Bibb County are available to ...

This means that the “Amber Road” extended all the way to Hama, a more than 1,800-mile journey ... medical journalism from the University of Georgia and is now based in Atlanta.