One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...
The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.
African leaders meeting in Ethiopia this weekend are to launch a new push for slavery and colonial reparations, but can ...
Bey’s show gets its name from a passage in the second stanza of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the hymn by James Weldon Johnson ...
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...
Charcoal portraits depict six of the enslaved Africans who were aboard the Amistad, the 19th-century slaving schooner that became the center of a landmark Supreme Court case. After they were stolen ...
Roberts, who was named National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence last year, regularly joins Diving With a Purpose, a group of Black scuba divers who uncover and document slave shipwrecks in the ...