Growing up, Dayna James never thought she’d willingly step foot on a plantation, let alone thank God for one. On an early ...
House Democrats on Wednesday reintroduced legislation that aims to find ways to deliver reparations to African Americans who are descendants of slaves.
One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...
During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...
Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the ...
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...
A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives aims to create a commission to study and develop reparations proposals for African ...
The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...
This excerpt is from the recently published book, The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism and Reparations ...
"Trace/s," the Brooklyn Public Library's newest exhibit, was unveiled last week in Downtown Brooklyn, connecting the legacy ...