According to Whitney’s Director of Research, Dr. Ibrahima Seck, “We don’t just focus on deportation, hard labor, mistreatment, we go beyond all that to see how these people who were enslaved here and ...

Understanding female genital mutilation’s contested origins is critical to dismantling its persistence across parts of Africa today.

Young children who grew up in slavery on Surinamese plantations were much more likely to die if they were without a mother. This is evident from a historical analysis of Surinamese slave registers by ...

Philadelphia's neighboring counties are showing their support for the city's lawsuit against the Trump administration after slavery exhibits were removed from the President's House on Independence ...

A rally at the President's House at Philadelphia's Independence Mall on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026, called for the return of a slavery exhibit that was removed from the site earlier this year. The exhibit ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia has additional support in its fight to restore the slavery exhibits at the historic President's House on Independence Mall. RELATED: Philadelphia sues over removal ...

On Monday, Philadelphia attorney and civil rights activist Michael Coard was granted access to the secret location where the federal government has stowed away “Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a ...

SYDNEY, Feb 11 (Reuters) - The secretary-general of the Commonwealth, a 56-nation group headed by Britain's King Charles, said on Wednesday she expected member nations to make progress towards ...

The administration took a crowbar to a site that focused on George Washington and slavery. But can the contradictions of the Founding Era be erased? By Jennifer Schuessler Jennifer Schuessler visited ...

How a few driven Black people changed the world ...

“Our history is imperfect,” said Delco Council Chair Richard Womack, “but it is ours, and the federal government can’t rewrite it or ignore it." Workers remove signs from the President's House exhibit ...

Acknowledge the past. Repair the present. Build a future of dignity and justice. The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, which operated between the fifteenth and late nineteenth centuries, ...