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Jennifer Cromack discovers a lost 1847 anti-slavery resolution by New England ministers in the American Baptist archive.
The July 4, 1910 title fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries led to riots, mayhem, murder — and the racially motivated ...
In a story published July 3, 2025 about an anti-slavery scroll, The Associated Press erroneously reported the document shed ...
Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...
COMMENTARY By likening Trump's immigrant-demonization crusade to Lincoln's abolition of slavery, Miami U.S. Rep. María Elvira ...
These enduring foundations of the United States of America have ties to the institution of slavery A country’s racist past ...
For nearly two centuries, the Danish West Indies were entangled in the brutal Atlantic Slave Trade, which saw the forced ...
Cherokee Nation celebrated Juneteenth this year with the signing of an executive order establishing a task force to examine ...
Initial efforts to locate a 19th century anti-slavery scroll were unsuccessful — until they looked in a church closet.
In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, ...