The crisis had begun with slavery. Of the more than 3 million Black Americans in 1848, nearly 90% were held in bondage. They lived and worked on Southern farms owned by the same white men who claimed ...

In 1804, Ohio passed “Black Laws” that barred testimony, schools, and jobs for Black residents—proving freedom in the North ...

In 1857, the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott ruling denied Black citizenship, upheld slavery, and stands as one of the Court's ...

Tributes to victims of the transatlantic slave trade can be found in museums and through statues, but a new proposal is calling for a memorial that can neither be visited nor even seen.

Susana Quinonez was born and raised on an abaca tree plantation along Ecuador's western coast where back-breaking work and ...

In most Western history books, the history of Africa before the bloody and gruesome age of colonialism is barely touched on, ...

Recent books, The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green and Worlds of Unfreedom by Roquinaldo Ferreira, painstakingly recreate the ...

"We are a race that has never before existed ... as a majority of African-descended people begin their history in the United ...

As America marks 250 years since the Declaration, Jefferson’s words have taken on an aura of moral clarity about equality, ...