Below are 25 expressions that have problematic origins.
Sometimes the slightest crack in an otherwise solid foundation can trigger the wholesale collapse of an edifice. Such was the ...
HENDERSON, N.C. (WTVD) -- Following through on a promise to build his grandchildren a space to play, Kenneth Spellman discovered his newly purchased property held priceless stories of North Carolina's ...
NEW ORLEANS – Thousands of tourists stream into the French Quarter each year through beautiful Esplanade Avenue, an oak tree-studded stretch known for its Creole cottages. The tremendous trees are a ...
Nearly nine months before U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Emancipation Proclamation calling for the end of slavery, the District of Columbia outlawed the slavery and paid reparations to ...
Thomas Laws, a slave who was a spy for Union troops during the Civil War, will be recognized with a historical marker in ...
The museum acquired the collection, the largest and most complete set of Charleston slave badges, in 2022. 146 slave badges from Charleston, South Carolina. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian National ...
In "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" (Simon & Schuster), author Ilyon Woo recounts a remarkable 19th century story of deception, in which a fair-skinned enslaved ...