A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

Deep in the waters off the Western Coast of Florida, secrets are waiting to be unearthed in the Gulf. "It's just endless, the story of what went on in these waters," Joe Zsiga, AKA Captain Joe of Epic ...

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

Born under the shackles of slavery, Harriet Tubman refused to accept a life where she wasn't free. Even after escaping, she ...

The vessel, a wooden schooner, was the last known slave ship from Africa to venture into ... six miles north of downtown Mobile. Plans for a Welcome Center telling some of that story has languished.

The Washington Post spoke to fired workers who explained their roles — and what the country is losing with the elimination of ...

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During the Great Depression, the value of Cook Islands exports suddenly collapsed—by 1935 it was just one third of the 1925 figure—and the New Zealand government slashed its funding for the territory ...

Issac Myers became a pioneering activist in the mid-1800s after years of hard work and labor on ships in the ports of ... hard for Black Baltimoreans in the slave state of Maryland.

Game of Thrones was a great TV show in the beginning – even if it did start cutting material from Martin’s books early on.