Before the Civil War, free people of color made up a higher proportion of the population in New Orleans than anywhere else in the United States. Kim Coleman, 29, a curator at the museum whose ...

At a meeting of a respectable portion of the free people of color of the city of Richmond, on Friday, January 24, 1817, William Bowler was appointed chairman, and Lentey Craw, secretary. The following ...

Massachusetts is marking the start of the American Revolution 250 years ago with several events this weekend. One Concord man is making sure that the contributions of people of color during the war do ...

Pope Leo XIV’s maternal grandparents were black or mixed and of Creole descent, moving from New Orleans to Chicago at the turn of the 20th century, reports said Friday. “The family were free people of ...

As the first Catholic pope from the United States, Pope Leo XIV has an ancestry that traces back to the Creole and free people of color from Louisiana, illustrating complex and interconnected issues ...

Making Race, Remembering Freedom: Constructing Racialized Liberty -- Colonial Liberties, Colonial Constraints: Defining Freedom in Early North Carolina -- Debating Freedom: The Radical War against ...

ATLANTA, Ind. — In a rural part of northern Hamilton County is a part of history connected to the Juneteenth holiday. "Roberts Settlement was a community — a settlement of free people of color," said ...

Before the Civil War, free people of color made up a higher proportion of the population in New Orleans than anywhere else in the United States. Descendants Tell Stories of Free People of Color NEW ...