A hotel was North Carolina’s first “safe haven” for enslaved people during the Civil War. But perils still awaited those who arrived. In the 1860s, African Americans escaped to one of the state’s ...
U.S. Military bases were named after Confederate soldiers to appease white supremacists; it was right to rename them.
The base, known as Fort Liberty since 2023, originally was named for Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg. The Army says it now ...