The vessel has been a staple along the Delaware River in South Philadelphia for more than 30 years, but will now begin its ...

More than a decade ago, the Africatown Welcome Center was a deteriorating trailer overlooking a 149-year-old cemetery. It sat ...

Hale's son-in-law became the first Black physician in Alabama. Thompson plans to write a biography about Hale and continues ...

Into the Depths’ n “Into the Depths” on view through March 1. In the special exhibits gallery, learn about the work of Diving ...

Listen to a short summary Read by Guy R. Your browser does not support the audio element.The theme for Black History Month ...

In 1904, two Americans boarded the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II and set off for Africa. One was Kent J. Loomis, brother to the ...

Shippers, plantation owners, merchants and crews reaped massive profits. But historians know very little about the ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

A nonprofit, the Capital Region Land Conservancy, wants to give the land at 1401 and 1421 Brander St. as a gift to the city.

NEW YORK (PIX11) — It is estimated that 500 to 100,000 slave ships crashed at the height of the transatlantic trade, and with it, the lives of more than a million people were lost. Over the last ...

LocoNet-FastClock is a slave-clock, which is connected to the LocoNET on modelrailroad-layouts. The slave-clock supports several control modes, e.g. direct control or FastClock.

following Britain's 1807 abolition of the African slave trade, the Royal Navy's Preventative Squadron attempted to stop the traffic of stupendously profitable human cargoes to the New World. While ...