A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad — Spanish for “Friendship” ...
In historian Robin Bernstein's new book "Freeman's Challenge," raising questions of the for-profit prison industry ...
Israel How Browne, also known as Israel Howe Browne, lived at 71 Concord St. He was known to allow escaped slaves to sleep in ...
More and more projects across Kentucky are uncovering Black history through historical documents, then putting them online ...
Athens native Michael Thurmond shares the anti-slavery feelings of Georgia's founder, General James Oglethorpe.
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Jesmyn Ward: "In the US there is a deliberate and sinister effort to erase the voices of those living on the marginalized"The writer, a two-time winner of the National Book Award, talks about her novel 'Sing, Unburied, Sing,' a journey through the slave South filled with horror and lyricism echoing powerfully in the ...
Saikat Majumdar’s new book explores the rise of amateurs as a response to colonial rule, and its current form, embodied by ...
TAKE a walk in the Dean Cemetery on the west side of Edinburgh and you will find a memorial that is emblazoned with the distinctive battle flag ...
In Arkansas, between 1868 and 1893, at least 87 Black men were elected to and served in the Arkansas General Assembly.
Discover the Gregory School in Freedmen’s Town, a historic site and first African-American public school. Open for free ...
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