The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...

The Defense Department efforts to purge civil rights figures from its website led to the deletion of a page about Black Civil War hero Sgt. William Carney.

Civil rights advocates, historians and Black political leaders are sharply rebuking President Donald Trump for his order ...

South Sudan, the world’s youngest country, fell into a bloody civil war soon after gaining independence in 2011, as forces aligned with Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fought those loyal to Machar ...

Is that a call for a civil war? Kinda sounds like it to me. Are there any solutions to the current horrid division in America? Can we unite the country? Can we avoid a civil war? Let me suggest ...

Civil War hero Sgt. William Carney earned the Medal of Honor by carrying the American flag through fire at Fort Wagner, ...

Armed forces in Sudan’s ongoing civil war are perpetrating systematic sexual violence against young children, with one-year-olds the youngest survivors of rape, according to a new report from ...

Syria's 14-year civil war has undergone yet another rapid series of shifts, with violence sweeping the west coast homeland of deposed President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite Muslim sect and ...

Critics on social media expressed disbelief over the Trump administration's latest attack on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives — scrubbing Arlington National Cemetery of information about ...