Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound ...

You never stifle an individual’s ability to be able to try to make a difference,” the artist Gary Tyler says. Of all the ...

The Descendants Project sues, contending that public officials had no right to forgive Greenfield’s grain-elevator-project ...

President-elect Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail to restore the names of Confederate generals on nine southern ...

Discover why Ben Foster refused to speak to Will Smith for six months during the intense filming of Emancipation, revealing ...

As white Americans moved further westward into the Nebraska territory after the Civil War, they kept fashioning a new ...

The Port of South Louisiana and St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff Mike Tregre are facing a lawsuit that alleges they ...

Pete Hegseth wants to name military bases after men who loved slavery so much they went to war with the United States.

To commemorate the 1811 German Coast slave revolt, the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history, dozens of African Americans ...