It is not blood alone that binds Black Americans to this soil. America, as we know it today, simply would not exist without ...

Vermont becomes first U.S. territory to abolish slavery. By 1783, New Hampshire and Massachusetts had followed Vermont’s lead ...

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

On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

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By Adejoke AdeleyeA powerful African historical epic, ‘Ireke: Rise of the Maroons,’ is poised to make its global cinema debut on July 25, in what promises to be a landmark moment for African ...

Thousands of sculpted heads – captive African men, women, and children – meticulously created by the artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo ...

The first documented Africans to arrive in the English-speaking colony of what would become Virginia, arrived in August 1619 on the “White Lion,” a Dutch man-of-war ship carrying enslaved cargo ...

Dinah Nevil came to the city in 1773 and insisted on freedom for herself and her children. And jump started the nation's ...

Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to Virginia in 1619 marked the origins of U.S. slavery.

From these first landings to nearly 250 years later when slavery was abolished, more than 360,000 Africans were taken from their homes to the United States.

Discussions on reparations for transatlantic slavery and colonialism are gaining momentum, with Caribbean and African nations calling on former colonial powers to engage on the issue.