Local Buses: The Southeastern Regional Transit Authority serves New Bedford and nine other communities in Massachusetts’s ...

Here, MassLive is highlighting 10 people — including educators, artists, businesspeople and advocates — identified for their ...

The Department of Justice said Wednesday that Jose Miguel Carrillo of Spring Hill, Florida was sentenced Tuesday to seven ...

Author, TV personality, and YouTube star Rich Benoit shares how he literally built his media empire from scratch.

The Martha's Vineyard African-American Heritage Trail offers tours highlighting the history, success and cultural ...

When local lecturer and historian Muqueedah Salaam first attended college as a young adult at Worcester State University, she ...

Harriet Ann Jacobs was born into slavery but refused to let the institution define her. Ferociously independent, Jacobs stood ...

Congress passes the first Fugi­tive Slave Law. The law made it easier for a slave owner to re-take control of a slave who had ...

A Massachusetts city was once home to a famous abolitionist who picked Valentine's Day to celebrate his birth. Frederick Douglass is now forever enshrined in the New Bedford neighborhood where he once ...

That house right there is where Frederick Douglass lived when he escaped from slavery. He slipped uh like so many did uh into New Bedford by way of both of the so-called Maritime Underground ...

Titled “Identity Months Dead at DoD,” the guidance bars the Department of Defense from using official resources to support cultural awareness months.

A formal memo from the Maryland National Guard's Joint Operations Center, dated Feb. 7, said the reserve component would be ...