One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

Jake Paul blasts Canelo Alvarez after negotiations for a blockbuster fight take last-minute turn and appear to be over.

Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the ...

Linsey Davis interviews Lee Hawkins, a journalist, about his searing new memoir, "I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My ...

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy. The USS ...

Portraits of enslaved people from the 19th century are unusual. But a Connecticut artist named William H. Townsend decided to ...

The U.S. bishops’ conference drew attention to the global crisis in a statement for the International Day of Prayer and ...

Eventually, the Amistad was seized by the United States near Long Island in New York ... But Townsend’s work—devoid of the ...

"Trace/s: Family History Research and the Legacy of Slavery in Brooklyn" at the Center for Brooklyn History grapples with the ...