John Brown

Albany civil rights icon Dr. Alice Green has died.

Amy Godine’s new book, "The Black Woods,"- chronicles the history of Black pioneers in New York's northern wilderness.Amy Godine has been writing and speaking about ethnic, migratory, and Black Adirondack history for more than three decades. Exhibits she has curated include "Dreaming of Timbuctoo" at the John Brown Farm State Historic Site in North Elba, New York.

Evangelical abolitionist John Brown became an icon of American history when he led a raid on a federal armory at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in an…

Danny Glover, Alice Green and Brother Yusuf Abdul-Wasi Burgess received the inaugural Spirit of John Brown Freedom Award at the John Brown Farm on…

Abolitionist John Brown, remembered for his 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry, a preview of the bruising Civil War to come, is buried just outside Lake Placid on…