In the United States, power often comes down to documentation. For centuries, those in power have used documents to police ...

The handwritten resolution, signed by 116 Baptist ministers from Massachusetts who called slavery “repugnant,” was thought to ...

“In Slavery’s Wake,” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, looks beyond the United States to tell a global story.

12 Years a Slave, which was shot in four historic Louisiana plantations and around New Orleans, employed several locals for ...

The suit alleges a U.S. arm of Taiwanese chemical giant Formosa Plastics has hindered access to an unmarked cemetery with ...

One reaction to criticism about new Florida standards: Nobody is saying slavery was good. Maybe not. But in the past, that's exactly what was said.

Three times a year in Knoxville we celebrate the end of slavery. On Jan. 1 of every year a program at Mount Zion Baptist Church recognizes the Emancipation Proclamation. June 19 is a federal ...

The Castle will host a cemetery tour at the Harmar Cemetery at 10 a.m. July 26. The cemetery is located at 129 Wood St. in ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

Racial Injustice in the United States” PHOTO COURTESY OF BLOOMSBURY.COM In 1982, Ronald Reagan declared a war on drugs. Just three years later, ...

The national commemoration of the Netherlands’ history of slavery will start early on Tuesday due to the expected hot weather ...

Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a deep dive into the pope's past in New York Times Magazine piece.