A Black Family Now Owns the Site of America’s Largest Slave Revolt
Growing up, Dayna James never thought she’d willingly step foot on a plantation, let alone thank God for one. On an early ...
House Dems reintroduce reparations legislation: 'We refuse to be silent'
House Democrats on Wednesday reintroduced legislation that aims to find ways to deliver reparations to African Americans who are descendants of slaves.
African American Historical Places
For more than 30 years, the SC African American Heritage Commission has taken a serious effort in preserving the rich African ...
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Global Africa’s quest for reparations for crimes against humanity
This excerpt is from the recently published book, The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism and Reparations ...
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Vermont African American Heritage Trail tells stories of Black history in the state
Consider visiting some of these sites to mark Black History Month or keep them in mind to travel to when the weather is ...
Black abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet, who lived on Long Island, helped shape the country's views on slavery
A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...
At Mother Bethel, Villanova professor previews ‘Last Seen,’ her book about how Black families searched for relatives sold during slavery
Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a new book, "Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly ...
Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...
How Henry Box Brown escaped slavery in a box and became a subversive magician
Henry Brown escapes slavery by mailing himself in a small wooden box to a free state. But that’s less than half his story. In ...
One family’s stories prove to be a window on Black struggle and persistence in American history
At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...
A US Congressman, his enslaved half-brothers and the history of an Austin log farmstead
Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...
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NYC’s best Black History Month events
Even as the federal government attempts to downplay the significance of Black History Month, New York City will continue to ...