This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN in 2015. In 2009, Peter ...

The feds have released the only 911 call from the Emanuel AME Church massacre scene — a heartbreaking exchange in which weak-from-shock survivor Polly Sheppard quietly begs for help from a ...

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I’m not sure how I feel about the idea that Black people can’t be racist in general, but there is one hill I have no problem dying on: Black people can’t be racist towards white people. I don’t say ...

In “So Help Me God,” the former vice president looks back on his career with one eye on where it might be headed. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, ...

Imagine meeting God on the other side of eternity and discovering that he had untold blessings to give you and a myriad of places to take you to but you had closed the door on all of it? Who would do ...