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

Five years ago, on July 4, 2020, the country was in the midst of waves of rioting. The proximate cause, the match that lit the fire, was the death of a black man, a violent ex-convict, on May 25, with ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

There are the big ones, of course: freedom of speech, religion, the press, and the right to assemble and petition the ...

Victor Mooney's latest advocacy trek included Catholic shrines and former concentration camps in Poland before a surprise ...

In 1979, UNESCO named Elmina Castle a World Heritage Site for its central role in the transatlantic slave trade. Because of ...

The bells of Idlewild Presbyterian Church in Memphis tolled Sunday to commemorate 400 years of African American history and culture. The ceremony was part of a nationwide bell-tolling commissioned by ...

How DEI grew from civil rights struggles to corporate trend. A look at 100 years of effort, from Wilson to Biden, and why ...

Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...