One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

This image from the Library of Congress Brady-Handy photograph collection shows a portrait of Robert ... bondage, Smalls stole a Confederate ship during the Civil War to sail his family and ...

The family of Robert Brooks has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against those involved in his death ... “And it paints an all too familiar picture of the rampant abuses that New York ...

A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls ... Born into bondage, Smalls stole a Confederate ship during the ...

This image provided by Basil Watson shows the sculptor’s proposal for a statue honoring Reconstruction hero Robert Smalls at ... Born into bondage, Smalls stole a Confederate ship during the Civil War ...

The family of Robert Brooks has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against those involved in his death, calling it “…torture and murder.” Elizabeth Mazur, a partner at Hughes, Socol, Piers, Resnick ...

UTICA, N.Y. (WRGB) — The family of Robert Brooks ... Nonetheless, the footage paints a chilling picture of an inmate in distress, his hands shackled behind his back, as officers repeatedly ...