A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation's oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds ...

This claim regarding the Harris heritage received renewed interest following the VP's announcement of her candidacy for U.S.

Much has been said about the role of slavery in the history of the United States, and while that history cannot be recounted ...

Tajanae Harris, left, a descendant of a slave, met Rebecca Bradshaw for the first time this week after learning that Bradshaw ...

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, fearless throngs defied prison or worse to secretly shuttle as many as 7,000 ...

Stagville is a sacred space for visitors to contend with the history of slavery, emancipation and injustice. We will work ...

The Charleston peninsula's three historically Black Episcopal churches, St. Mark's, St. Stephen's and Calvary, lamented ...

Batson and others shared their remarks near the graves of two men who witnessed the original Juneteenth, June 19, 1865, when ...

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

Price will appoint a working group charged with developing ideas and a proposal for publicly acknowledging and ...

California voters rejected the anti-slavery measure Proposition 6, which would have banned forced labor in state prisons.

Patricia Kilby-Robb, a retired educator, gives a tour of the James Wilson Kilby African American Museum on Shenandoah Shores ...