Hannah Kliger joined the CBS News New York team as a reporter in May 2022, focusing her coverage in Brooklyn. A native New Yorker, Hannah has received several awards for her investigative journalism ...

The institution of slavery in New York dates to 1627 when 22 enslaved Africans were brought to present-day Manhattan by the Dutch West Indies Company. New York was the last northern state to free ...

Beginning in earnest around 1830, Philadelphia’s vibrant free Black community, led by successful Black industrialists and merchants such as James Forten and Robert Purvis, collaborated with local ...

A Lockport resident’s role in bringing about societal reform in the United States is getting a public boost thanks to the efforts of a New Lenox researcher. In the years leading up to the Civil War, ...

A version of this news analysis originally appeared in the Inside Politics newsletter, out Fridays. Sign up here to get it first to your inbox. Primary election night last week in Mecklenburg County ...

First in a series of profiles during Black History Month highlighting unsung African-American figures from New England. Several years before the Civil War broke out, William Cooper Nell, a Boston-born ...

Homeland Security Investigations Officers on the front doorsteps of a house. 46% of Americans are calling for the abolition of ICE according to a YouGov poll. Photo courtesy of @icegov on Instagram It ...

Pope Leo XIV reaffirms the Vatican stance against the death penalty as several US states explore new execution methods, ...