Black Americans throughout the country have been getting racist text messages about slave plantations. One texting platform called it a “widespread, coordinated attack.” ...

People throughout the D.C. area and across the country reported receiving racist spam text messages the day after the ...

A judge is blocking a Georgia county from approving larger homes in a tiny community of Black slave descendants as they ask ...

Mumia Abu Jamal is one of the world’s best-known political prisoners.  Convicted in 1982 of murdering a Philadelphia police ...

Launched from a Baltimore shipyard in 1824, the ship was designed for the thriving Brazilian slave trade and thus for speed. For slavers, Mr. Taylor writes, “speed was the prime virtue in a ...

Ten years of hell saw her being kidnapped from her home in Iraq, being bought and sold as a slave in Syria, and then ending up held captive in the Gaza Strip. And she was finally rescued earlier ...

Estimates are around 20 per cent, so the order of two million people. And that’s lost in the journey. There were even more lost in the transport across the African continent to the slave ports.

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Read More The new marker is notable because these streets, once bustling with businesses critical to the slave trade, yield little of that story to the average passerby. Singletary grew up in this ...

The legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade still scars our societies. We must remember the places which bear witness to one of humanity’s greatest crimes. Preserving and visiting these places will ...