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Charleston was a key port in the slave trade where approximately 40% of all slaves entered the country.

Pride month begins today. It's a time to celebrate the accomplishments of the LGBTQ community. But the word "pride" didn't start out as a symbol for LGBTQ empowerment.

Tony Horwitz won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his Wall Street Journal reporting and was known for his history books, including Confederates in the Attic. He died Monday at age 60.

As the son of a preacher, McDonald often had to practice his magic tricks in secret while he was growing up. Now he's the first black president of the Society of American Magicians.

Instead of looking back to an age of empire, Russia should accept Ukraine's borders and move on, Kenya's ambassador told a session of the U.N. Security Council.

The quiet Wyoming town of Riverton -- population 10,000 -- got a shock recently: their town was about to become the headquarters of the World Church of the Creator, a group associated with white supremacy and racial violence. NPR's Howard Berkes reports on how the town is responding to the move, and how it's confronting its own history of intolerance. Listen to an extended interview with church "hastus primus" Tomas Kroenke.

The lawsuit alleges that the Cabell County school system has a history of disregarding the religious freedom of its students.

From shrunken heads to items literally too hot to handle, many museums collect items of note, but choose not to display them. Harriet Baskas takes a look around the back rooms of some of the nation's most prominent museums to see what they're not showing the public.

Over 250 years after the end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, some West Africans are still trying to come to terms with the involvement of African rulers and slave merchants. For National Geographic's Radio Expeditions, NPR's John Burnett reports from Benin.

In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue faced off against Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess mind on Earth — and changed history.