Studies show farmers and agricultural workers are at elevated risk of suicide, and Georgia farmers have been especially hard hit by natural disasters...
It's Juneteenth, also known as "Freedom Day" — commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. It was on June 19, 1865, when union soldiers...
Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, commemorates the official end of slavery in the U.S. in 1865, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln...
The University of Georgia continues to grapple with a difficult chapter of its history. It’s been under fire for how it handled the discovery of human...
Members of Congress are working to revive an Obama-era effort to make Harriet Tubman the new face of the $20 bill. A new historical novel about Tubman...
The Peabody Awards announced winners in radio and podcasting this week, among them Type Investigations and Reveal for their "Monumental Lies" episode....
Town and gown tensions are high at the University of Georgia as the end of the school year nears. Amid national conversations about the historical role...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Chadwick Boseman, Oprah Winfrey and Spike Lee are all graduates of historically black colleges and universities. For more...
Zora Neale Hurston, the celebrated Harlem Renaissance writer and anthropologist, has a new bestseller out nearly 60 years after her death. She wrote "...
Telfair Museums' Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters plans to reveal the newly-refurbished slave quarters at the Regency-era mansion to the public on...
Harvard American history professor Jill Lepore set out to explore ideas of political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of the people in her...
This year is the 50th anniversary of George Romero's 1968 film, "Night of the Living Dead." While Romero's film popularized zombies as a horror trope,...
June 19 is Juneteenth , t he oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States . However, many people have never...
