Love in a hopeless place: two lovebirds were kidnapped from Angola and forced into labor in the Americas, yet they maintained their bond, research shows.

President Donald Trump is attempting to dismantle the Department of Education. His efforts are history repeating itself.

Enslaved fugitives referred to the Ohio River as the River Jordan. It was a metaphor for freedom like the Israelites’ flight from slavery in Egypt through the parted waters of the Red Sea. Except the ...

Although “I Am Nobody’s Slave” takes the form of a memoir, Minnesota native Lee Hawkins’ book becomes something bigger: an ...

And just like that, Ejiofor was cast as Mr. Wallaker, a pragmatic science teacher, in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, the ...

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

My military service saw my allegiance to six different presidents over almost 40 years in uniform. I didn’t always agree with ...

The effort to name the House Press Gallery after abolitionist Frederick Douglass is getting a push forward as Rep. Byron ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...