Linsey Davis interviews Lee Hawkins, a journalist, about his searing new memoir, "I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My ...

Discover how African Americans have contributed to the U.S. economy, despite historical inequalities. Explore the impact of ...

Historians agree that  the earliest record of the West African chattel, commonly called slaves, arrived in America in 1619.

The project published in The New York Times in August 2019, and Hannah-Jones subsequently won the Pulitzer Prize for ...

A push to allow African American studies as a history credit for Virginia high schoolers cleared a major hurdle Monday, with ...

New York City is renowned as a global center of finance, commerce and culture, but its role in slavery is far lesser known.   Although the slave trade is typically associated […] ...

Sometimes when reading The Union one encounters a statement that seems to explain much of the political mire in which we find ourselves. One such appeared in Manny Montes’ response ...

We have systematically oppressed a group of people for 400 years — from the slave ships of 1619 to the Three-Fifths ...

adding that the indictment alleges the children were “targeted because of their race” to be used “as basically slaves.” Both Lantz and Whitefeather appeared in court on Tuesday where ...

Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound from the West African coast to North America in late 1859. Her story ...

Accusations of slavery raised the company’s hackles. The firm in question, Jinjiang Group, has denied characterizations of the situation as forced labor and says that a misunderstanding has taken ...

Paola Vargas Arana received 9 years funding from CNPq & CAPES Brazil, The British Academy, The University of Edinburgh, King's College London and The University of Manchester. The transatlantic ...