Editor’s note: During Black History Month, the Times Union is sharing stories from its archive highlighting significant people, places and events that are part of the Capital Region’s Black ...

City Council President Nick Mosby, a Democrat who grew up in Northeast Baltimore, was not shocked that Hopkins’ founder owned enslaved people in the 1840s and 1850s.

The university revealed Wednesday that Hopkins had enslaved four men at his Clifton Park estate in the 1840s and 1850s, making him exactly like the others of his class and race in Baltimore.

In Blandair Regional Park, there's a building that used to be the home of enslaved African Americans that was first built in the 1800s. The county wants to fix it up and learn more about it.

1840s Plaza is the latest entertainment and hotel site in the city to seek new ownership. Over the past several years, many of Baltimore's hospitality and event spaces have changed hands through ...

TROY – The 1840s watercolor portrait of Peter F. Baltimore, an African-American with a prominent role in the Capital Region's 19th-century abolitionist movement, will be back home early next ...

In the 1830s and 1840s, German and Irish immigrants came to Baltimore looking for work. The two groups, particularly the German workers, did not want to work with blacks. That led to clashes that ...