There is an exciting new addition on display at the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, ...

Seven years after the Florida Legislature approved a memorial recognizing the tragedy of slavery for the grounds of the ...

Between 1632 and 1760, records show that 734 Indigenous children were enslaved in France's North American colony, historian ...

To mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, the South African musician Hugh Masekela, recently performed inside Elmina slave fort alongside musicians from Britain, the Caribbean and ...

Jamaica says its taking the demand for slavery reparations to the next phase and will petition King Charles for Privy Council ...

The Senate Committee on Reparations and Repatriations has resolved to meet with ambassadors and high commissioners of all ...

Enslaved persons, sailors, and other groups at the bottom of the colonial hierarchy of power rose up against their oppressors. These rebellions struck fear in the heart of rulers everywhere, and ...

New Jersey was the last Northern state to abolish slavery, but Black settlements helped the enslaved find freedom long before ...

Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. The tradition began in 1865, when enslaved African Americans ...

A physically and intellectually imposing figure whose heart “bled for abolition, racial justice, and constitutional democracy,” Sumner pushed U.S. presidents and Senate colleagues alike to end slavery ...

Pope Leo XIV’s Creole and African ancestry, traced to Louisiana and West Africa, is prompting celebration and curiosity among ...