Franklin is a city with an eye on the future while it also looks back and preserves its past. “I think communities that really care about their history — it will only serve them for their future, so I ...

Scholars of the blues trace the Bentonia style to Henry Stuckey, whose life is as mysterious ... s so connected to the past and the horrors of slavery, sharecropping and Jim Crow.

When Garrett spoke of sinful empathy, he merely echoed writers like Joe Rigney, who helped popularize the idea years before ...

“It was a long, long training,” said Stuckey. “We spent weeks just in class on our culture and melding it with the Four Seasons culture. It was really important to us, because that’s all I ...

While the Trump administration tries to downplay matters of race and racism in US history, the minister of a Providence ...

Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ships. The ships, named Fridericus ...

Looming over the first section of “In Slavery’s Wake” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture is one of the most viscerally disturbing artifacts in the exhibit ...

Star Wars nerds are furious after a recently announced Lego set failed to refer to a character’s ship by its original name, Slave 1. It’s the last one of these that has a specific subset of ...

Among the dark legacies of slavery in America was the sundering of black families: men sold to fuel the Deep South’s burgeoning cotton economy, children wrenched away from parents to settle ...

A United Nations judge has been jailed for six years and four months after being convicted of forcing a young Ugandan woman to work as a slave in Britain. Lydia Mugambe, 50, was found guilty of ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — A red carpet celebration was held today for head and neck cancer survivor Jim Stuckey at Trident Medical Center. Not only is Stuckey a cancer survivor, he was a first ...