RICHMOND, Va. -- Near the intersection of Canal and 15th streets in downtown Richmond sits one of the most peculiar attractions in all of Virginia. The simple metal box, frozen in time, is a low-key ...

Courtesy photo A free performance of Rory Rennick’s one-man show, “Henry Box Brown: The Life and Legacy Event,” will be staged at the Mishler Theatre at 7 p.m. July 29. The life of Henry “Box” Brown, ...

Henry “Box” Brown shipped himself from a slave state to a free state in 1849. Undermain Theatre’s production of Box imagines an alternative ending to Brown’s life after his escape from slavery. Henry ...

Philadelphia cartoonist Box Brown examines marijuana — where it came from, its life in the US, and, importantly, the breathless national campaign to demonize a certain segment of its users. Brown ...

Henry "Box" Brown's idea to ship his way to freedom might have been the most successful disappearing act of all time. In 1849, the formerly enslaved man embarked on a 27-hour journey from a slave ...

Box Brown is a cartoonist, illustrator and comic publisher from Philadelphia. His comics have been featured in Mad Magazine and his illustrations have been on Wired.com. His web and print comic ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - February is Black History Month and KTBS 3/KPXJ CW 21 continue to salute the contributions of African Americans in labor with the help of Bossier Parish high school students. In 1849 ...

PHILADELPHIA – The first time Brian Brown realized that something was terribly wrong, he had been handcuffed and thrown into the back of a police car. He was just a 16-year-old New Jersey teenager ...

‘The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia,’ an 1850 lithograph by Samuel W. Rowse. An illustration titled ‘Resurrection of Henry Box Brown’ from William Still’s 1872 book ‘The Underground ...