Growing up, Dayna James never thought she’d willingly step foot on a plantation, let alone thank God for one. On an early ...

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

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 ...

House Democrats on Wednesday reintroduced legislation that aims to find ways to deliver reparations to African Americans who are descendants of slaves.

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

Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

A museum is changing its exhibits to reflect a town's "glossed over" connections to slavery. The Rum Story in Whitehaven ...

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 ...