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 ...
Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...
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 ...
Consider visiting some of these sites to mark Black History Month or keep them in mind to travel to when the weather is ...
"Trace/s," the Brooklyn Public Library's newest exhibit, was unveiled last week in Downtown Brooklyn, connecting the legacy ...