Alberta Hunter was a jazz and blues artist who was in high demand all over the world in the 1920’s.

Several of the world's best-known dance companies will perform in the White House East Room next week.

A man who called 911 from the hot tub of a suburban home and asked for towels, hot chocolate and a hug got arrested instead.

In 1865, a slave and mother named Margaret Garner would become the defendant in one of the longest public slave trials in history.

A pistol-packing 69-year-old woman in northern Alabama believes intruders will think twice before messing with her again.

The ex-prostitute who became famous in 1995 for her $50 rendezvous with Hugh Grant has publicly thanked the actor for “changing” her life.

Archeologists at the National Park Service in Frederick County, Maryland have found slave artifacts from an 18th century plantation.

Jordan Miles claims three white Pittsburgh police officers wrongfully assumed he was involved with drugs when they beat him.

A would-be burglar who tried to break into a South Carolina restaurant found himself in a tight and a greasy situation.

Elder Solomon Lightfoot Michaux, also known as the “Happy Am I Preacher,” was a native of Buckroe Beach, Virginia and a devout Baptist.