With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

Thankfully, two recent anthologies of Indian fiction — both suggested to me by avid readers at the Book Fair — sparkled and may redress an imbalance noted by a literary friend recently: Jaipur, and ...

Donald Ray Lantz and Jeanne Kay Whitefeather adopted the children, ages 5 to 16, and brought the family to West Virginia in May ... Matthew Dingess for the first day of trial on January 14 ...

Our kids are now taught that our real birth as a nation wasn’t 1776 with the Declaration of Independence, but 1619 with the arrival of the first slaves ... that brought all of these issues ...

The Year of Return was conceived to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619 ... the transatlantic slave trade and its ...

The Year of Return was conceived to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619 ... the transatlantic slave trade and its ...

Examples cited in the order include a policy at Harrisonburg City Public Schools in Virginia ... 1619 Project, which aimed to tell a fuller story of the country’s history by putting slavery ...

With the increased attention on race relations and equality brought ... of Virginia, Columbia, and Princeton, were built by enslaved workers and partially funded by the slave trade.

His refusal to support special interests brought civil ... government for former slaves. Recruited Black troops for the Union Army in their fight for freedom. First Black woman to travel into ...

From Air Jordans to the high-five, Black athletes have driven popular culture for decades. The mannerisms, clothes and ...