Juneteenth events at Booker T. Washington National Monument detail the life of the famous author and orator who was freed in Franklin County after being enslaved the first nine years of his life.

This weekend, a historic milestone is being honored in Franklin County. The Booker T. Washington National Monument is commemorating 160 years since his emancipation. The event showcases how the ...

An exterior view of the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, the church is the oldest African Methodist Episcopal church in the south and was constructed in 1891. In June 2015 it was ...

Esi Edugyan’s new novel, Washington Black, which has already been longlisted for the Booker Prize, is the story of the eponymous central character, who in the 1830s is a slave on a Barbados ...

1 p.m. at the Visitor Center Theater General Ulysses S. Grant’s victory at Appomattox Court House led to the end of slavery in Virginia, including freedom for nine-year-old Booker T. Washington.

Booker T competed at WrestleMania six times in his career. He was 1-5 at WrestleMania, picking up his lone win teaming with Rob Van Dam against La Resistance, The Dudley Boyz, and Garrison Cade ...

As routinely as the changing of the seasons, every year the Booker Prize — the leading literary award in the English-speaking world — is conferred to what is believed to be, in the judges’ view, the ...

In 1899, shortly before the late great Booker T. Washington organized the National Negro Business League, there were two Negro banks. When N. N. B. A. was formed in 1926, eleven years after Booker ...

Booker T. Washington, born into slavery, became a prominent educator, author, and civil rights leader. As a founder of the Tuskegee Institute, Washington emphasized practical education, the ...

At the dawn of the 20th century, two such men were Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington. One of these men had to overcome the evils of slavery, and fought for the rest of his life against ...

In ‘Teddy and Booker T.’, Fox News Host Recounts How Civil Rights Pioneer and President Teamed Up for Equality Brian Kilmeade’s book on the two icons is a fast-paced read that tells Booker T.