Fall River has been shaped profoundly by the Black experience, just as the city played a role in the lives of prominent Black people.

This is an opinion column. A chair was just a chair — until Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin put a light and a bell on one. Benjamin was a schoolteacher, composer and inventor, born in 1861 in Charleston, ...

This is part of our annual series of places where Black History happened It must be nice to live in a world where it’s easy ...

The innovations of inventors are enjoyed every single day, from big-picture things, to the little things that make daily lives a bit easier. If you haven’t thanked an inventor today, you’ll soon get ...