A mysterious formal portrait of an enslaved man named Frederick is expected to sell for as much as $500,000 at auction in New Orleans ...

Mary McLeod Bethune was born in 1875 to former slaves. Found school for girls in 1904 with only $1.50. Friendship with first lady leads to federal appointment at National Youth Administration ...

Ms. Phillips is nominated for an Oscar for the costume design of “A Complete Unknown,” her fourth. Playing Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown,” Timothée Chalamet had 67 costume changes.

This was the slave ship Camargo, which carried five hundred souls across the Atlantic before it burned. It was the sixth of November, and I was diving with a group of maritime archeologists in ...

WORLD Book Day is just around the corner – Thursday, March 6 – but don’t worry if you’ve not sorted your child’s costume. Last year’s event was a huge success with youngsters across ...

A SLAVE BOY WAS CHASED INTO THE STORE BY HIS OVERSEER, WHO ORDERED TUBMAN TO HOLD THE BOY WHILE HE WHIPPED HIM. SHE REFUSED. SHE LET THAT OVERSEER HAVE IT, AND WHEN SHE DID, THAT SLAVE BOY STARTED ...

A young woman allegedly tricked into coming to the UK to work as a slave for a United Nations judge felt "lonely" and "stuck", a trial has heard. Lydia Mugambe is accused of stopping the woman ...

UN judge ‘kept slave in UK after deal with Ugandan deputy high commissioner’, court hears Lydia Mugambe ‘took advantage of status’ to force alleged victim to act as maid and look after her ...

A United Nations judge deceived a young woman into coming to the UK to work as her slave while she studied at the University of Oxford, a court has heard. Lydia Mugambe is accused of taking ...

So in 2016, when Maddox learned not only that the Catholic church had held slaves, but that her ancestors had been among them, it prompted a crisis of faith. To see her great-great-grandfather ...