In the mid-1800s, before the Civil War, Thomas White fled his enslavement in Maryland for freedom. It was a risky escape, one that involved a horseback ride under the cover of darkness, abolitionists ...

Police on Monday searched the home of a far-right activist under investigation for attaching protest materials to a statue ...

Police on Monday searched the home of a far-right activist under investigation for defaming statues of a girl representing ...

A young woman held captive by Hamas for more than a year revealed her deep-seated fear that her captors would use her as a “sex slave” after repeated sexual assaults — and said they promised her an ...

Every winter, millions of people curl up on the couch and press play on the same beloved holiday movies -- whether it's Love Actually, The Holiday, The Family Stone or Four Christmases. Snowy towns, ...

Chatting and laughing, Maria Abreu strolled with her friends under the Christmas lights adorning a boulevard in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. Anything, she said, not to think of the threat of war ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Local officials in Florida’s capital city have voted to sell a city-owned golf course built on top of the graves of enslaved people to a once-segregated country club, despite ...

Roman slavery looked a bit different than we tend to imagine. In fact, the latest finds from Pompeii suggest that some of the volcanically-preserved port city’s slaves savored delicacies like beans ...

For anyone with a sedentary job, long hours seated often lead to lower back strain, neck pain, and overall fatigue. Traditional chairs simply aren’t built for people who spend eight or more hours a ...

PLANO, Texas — Federal agents accused two Texas men of hatching an outlandish and unsettling plot to take over a Haitian island through an “armed coup,” murder all of its men and then use its ”women ...