While on an artists’ retreat at a former slave plantation, our columnist Eirinie Carson muses on history’s worst moments – ...

Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick ...

Richard Allen, born into slavery near Smyrna, rose to found the AME Church and promote rights for African Americans.

In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...

Dozens of fourth graders were asked to imagine they were slaves Thursday as they packed themselves into a small gallery at the Carnegie Center for the Visual Arts in Decatur. Jessica Emrick, exhibit ...

Victor Valley Museum’s new featured artist sheds light on the marginalized. From enslaved Africans to trafficking victims, ...

Paying homage to ‘The Igbo Landing’, the mass suicide in 1803 by captive Igbo people who took control of the slave ship they ...

The Ware-Lyndon House Museum, an exhibition housed within downtown Athens’ Lyndon House Arts Center, was focused on the ...

Horace King, a former slave, was a renowned bridge builder and architect in the American South during the ... As much a work of art as a practical application of engineering and construction ...

It is a tapestry of historical research, photography, poetry, and fine art used to explore her family’s role in enslavement dating back to the late 1700s — from the captain of a slave trade ship ...

Divided by Steve Sheinkin and Toby Cypress is a YA nonfiction graphic novel set in 1850s Washington DC, in a polarized nation on its way to Civil War. How very opportune.

The texts bear witness to the individuals who defied the formidable legal structure of slavery," the society ... a deep interest in American contemporary art, which led to his lifelong passion ...