A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ...

Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort ... In May 1862, during the Civil War, the steel-nerved ship pilot waited for the ship's white Confederate crew members to leave the vessel for an ...

This image from the Library of Congress Brady-Handy photograph collection shows a portrait of Robert Smalls created between 1870 and 1880. (Library of Congress via AP) In May 1862, during the Civil ...

Born into slavery, during the Civil War in May 1862 Robert Smalls successfully commandeered a Confederate transport vessel, the 147-foot side-wheeler steamship the Planter in Charleston Harbor and ...

UTICA, N.Y. (WRGB) — The family of Robert Brooks, an inmate who died after being beaten by corrections officers, is planning to announce a civil rights lawsuit and address the media for the ...

held a press conference Wednesday morning at the DoubleTree Rochester to announce the filing of a civil rights lawsuit. "What happened to my father should not happen to anyone." his son Robert ...

The first trailer for upcoming gangster thriller The Alto Knights is here and it looks like the king of mob movies Robert De Niro has met his most worthy opponent yet… himself. The trailer ...

Henrietta, N.Y. (WHAM) — The family of Robert Brooks, a Rochester man who died following a beating by officers at Marcy Correctional Facility, has filed a civil lawsuit. Brooks, 43, died one day ...

The family of Robert Brooks has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against those involved in his death, calling it “…torture and murder.” Elizabeth Mazur, a partner at Hughes, Socol ...

Robert De Niro is a two-hit wonder in the trailer for the upcoming gangster film “The Alto Knights” from Barry Levinson. De Niro stars in a double role as both mob bosses Vito Genovese and ...