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

The book is based on two decades of research into abolition, universal freedom and justice. In it, I explore the role played ...

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 and Rebecca Bradshaw met after nearly four years of planning and research of their genealogies.

Descendants of slaves have responded to the slew of racist text messages targeting Black Americans that were sent out ...

An upcoming exhibit of artifacts aims to juxtapose stories about the pursuit of freedom in the American Revolution with those ...

After Colorado distinguished itself this year as one of three states to pass legislation to study the thorny issue of ...

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

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

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

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