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Colfax Massacre descendants talk about racial healing on both sides
The Town Talk via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe ancestors of the Rev. Avery Hamilton and Dean Woods were on opposite sides of the Colfax...
1 dead after late night house fire on Colfax Avenue in Binghamton, cause investigated
Press Connects | Press & Sun-Bulletin via Yahoo News· 6 months agoOne person is dead following a blaze late Friday night that damaged two homes in Binghamton's First...
Bonded through atrocity, men set out to correct record of Louisiana's Colfax Massacre
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCOLFAX, La. – The shiny new black marble monument dedicated to the victims of the Colfax Massacre...
Colfax Fire Department completes merger
The High Point Enterprise, N.C. via Yahoo Finance· 11 months agoJul. 1—GUILFORD COUNTY — The Colfax Fire Department has completed its 65-year run as an independent fire station as it merges with Kernersville Fire Department effective today. Leaders of the ...
Louisiana town erects monument to pay homage to victims of bloody Colfax Massacre
theGrio via AOL· 1 year agoThe Colfax Massacre was the deadliest atrocity of the Reconstruction Era in the South. A new...
Verbal altercation almost turns deadly in rural Colfax
Newton Daily News, Iowa via Yahoo News· 1 day agoJun. 10—Two men have been arrested following an incident on June 5 in rural Colfax that escalated to the point where one of the individuals allegedly fired a handgun at the other. The Jasper ...
The Colfax Massacre: The mass shooting that made America
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOPINION: 150 years ago today, a white supremacist act of domestic terrorism set the stage for Black...
Colfax, looking to attract new generation of visitors, celebrates 150th anniversary this month
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJul. 6—In 1870, 29-year-old James Perkins came across the confluence of two branches of the Palouse River in present-day Colfax and envisioned a town in the forested valley where the waters ...
NAACP intervenes for Black Colfax resident who says property has been blocked with trees, traps
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 3 months agoTree trunk road blocks, hidden booby traps and more. Attorneys for a Black foothills landowner are...
Looking Back
Daily Leader via Yahoo News· 1 year ago130 Years Ago January 14, 1893 A fire in The Blade office early Sunday morning did considerable damage. The fire was discovered by Chas. Lough, night...
