Charcoal portraits depict six of the enslaved Africans who were aboard the Amistad, the 19th-century slaving schooner that became the center of a landmark Supreme Court case. After they were stolen ...

W hat does it mean to study slavery? To study something means to make arguments based on evidence. But what counts as evidence, and who has the authority to make those determinations? In part because ...

I have a message for President Trump, his administration, and anyone who hopes the world will forget the history of slavery in this country.

Growing up, Dominique Williams visited her grandmother every weekend. And on each trip, she was greeted by a piece of her past, a name stitched in fabric, filled with centuries of legacy and mystery. ...

A National Museum of African American History and Culture Exhibition frames the history of slavery in a global context Abigail Pocasangre & Julia Ross Artist Daniel Minter created this installation ...

Langston Hughes, my favorite writer, wrote a poem in 1926, when he was 25 years old. It declared, with a mix of substantial sadness and delicate defiance, "I, too, am America." Born in the long ...

Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) on January 19, to reflect on the civil rights movement he led in the 1950s and ‘60s, the impact ...

Below are 25 expressions that have problematic origins.

Softening the portrayal of slavery in museums is a dangerous attempt to reshape collective memory. The legacies of slavery, such as racial disparities in incarceration and wealth, continue to impact ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) – Plenty of America’s most ...