The Lest We Forget Museum of Slavery features shackles, chains and other painful relics of the transatlantic slave trade.

Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the Black genealogists helping to unearth it.

When Maryland's replacement for Baltimore's Key Bridge is completed as expected in 2028, a state lawmaker wants the name to remain (mostly) the same.

A look at slavery through the eyes of a young woman named Harriet, who was sold at auction in 1861 to pay for her white owner's debt.

Benjamin Booker is back with a compelling, experimental new album, and enjoying pulling the strings on his own label ...

President Nayib Bukele offered to house American prisoners in El Salvador's "mega-prison" — in exchange for a fee ...

In his confirmation hearing, Robert F. Kennedy Jr told Bernie Sanders that he opposes health care as a human right. His ...

Historical and sociological perspectives reveal why certain societies or subgroups resist change, often rooted in cultural ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

Jim Crow, a term drawn from a racist caricature, describes a long period of segregation and racial violence in the United ...

History is more than what we learn in textbooks—it’s a living, breathing narrative that continues to shape the present. There ...

When you think about slavery in the United States you probably think about it happening in the deep south in the 1800’s and causing the Civil War. However, slavery was ...