J. Higgins was the first documented professional Black baseball player in Columbus, playing in 1887 for the Columbus Buckeyes ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — More than a century-and-a-half after the Emancipation Proclamation, Columbus historians recalled what slavery looked like on a local level before abolition. Though slavery was ...

Poindexter Village was one of the first public housing complexes in the nation when it opened in Columbus in 1940. Now two of ...

St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in Columbus have a long history. The early Ohio newspaper Freeman’s Chronicle reported that in March 1813, during the second year of the War of 1812, a Franklinton ...

Submitted photo Whittney Wood-Gaines is the founder and project manager of Black History Month Columbus. One hundred years ago in 1926, Dr. Carter G. Woodson would create a weeks-long observance of ...